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This is the first book that comprehensively examines Indigenous filmmaking in North America, as it analyzes in detail a variety of representative films by Canadian and US-American Indigenous filmmakers: two films that contextualize the oral tradition, three short films, and four dramatic films. The book explores how members of colonized groups use the medium of film as a means for cultural and political expression and thus enter the dominant colonial film discourse and create an answering discourse. The theoretical framework is developed as an interdisciplinary approach, combining postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, and film studies. As Indigenous people are gradually taking control over the imagemaking process in the area of film and video, they cease being studied and described objects and become subjects who create self-controlled images of Indigenous cultures. The book explores the translatability of Indigenous oral tradition into film, touching upon the changes the cultural knowledge is subject to in this process, including statements of Indigenous filmmakers on this issue. It also asks whether or not there is a definite Indigenous film practice and whether filmmakers tend to dissociate their work from dominant classical filmmaking, adapt to it, or create new film forms and styles through converging classical film conventions and their conscious violation. This approach presupposes that Indigenous filmmakers are constantly in some state of reaction to Western ethnographic filmmaking and to classical narrative filmmaking and its epitome, the Hollywood narrative cinema. The films analyzed are The Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell, Itam Hakim, Hopiit by Victor Masayesva, Talker by Lloyd Martell, Tenacity and Smoke Signals by Chris Eyre, Overweight With Crooked Teeth and Honey Moccasin by Shelley Niro, Big Bear by Gil Cardinal, and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk.

Indian motion pictures --- Ethnographic films --- Indians in the motion picture industry --- Indians in motion pictures. --- Indian mass media --- Indigenous peoples and mass media --- Mass media and indigenous peoples --- Mass media --- Indians of North America --- Mass media, Indian --- Indians of Central America in motion pictures --- Indians of Mexico in motion pictures --- Indians of North America in motion pictures --- Indians of South America in motion pictures --- Indians of the West Indies in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Motion picture industry --- Anthropological films --- Ethnographic videos --- Ethnological films --- Documentary films --- Motion pictures, Indian --- Mass media and Indigenous peoples

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“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume collects articles that tackle the concept of contradiction, practices of contradicting and lived contradictions from a number of relevant perspectives and assembles contributions from linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and media studies. The editors Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel is Professor Emerita for Romance Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf is Professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen. Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bremen.

Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Contradiction in literature.