FILM 3401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hybridity, Julia Kwan, Isuma
4 Apr 2016
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Sympathetic" these films re-inscribe aboriginal stereotypes, even where they are attempting to deconstruct them. Spectacle indians" reconstructed from white cultural materials. In sympathetic films, the ethnographic gaze becomes an instrument of surveillance and entertainment. Linked to discourses of power, knowledge and fetishistic pleasure. Part of indigenous nationhood" is about reconstructing a power base for the assertion of control over native land and life. Recognize importance of asserting native control over representations of native land and life. Access to tools of creation, and self-representation are the beginnings of self- determination: stories have to be told by natives themselves, rather than by others. Stereotypes are an important social ordering process. Like genres" are ways of categorization or typification. Help humans make sense of their society or culture by means of generalities and patterns. Expressions of their user"s values or beliefs in contradistinction to those of the stereotypee.
