A cultural renewal : native Americans in road movies

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buir.advisorChesney, Duncan
dc.contributor.authorGümüş, Yasemin
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T18:05:20Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T18:05:20Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of Communication and Design and the Institute of Economics and Social Sciences of Bilkent University, 2008.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2008.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, contemporary Native American road films Powwow Highway (Wacks, 1989), Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995), Smoke Signals (Eyre, 1998), and Dreamkeeper (Barron, 2003) are studied in terms of their relation to the formal and thematic conventions of the road movie genre. The movies are examined as social reproductions of postmodern mainstream American road picture. The films are analyzed as social texts working as cultural renewals of the texts representing American Indians in the mainstream American cinema as well as they are taken as major contributions to the road genre. In this sense, Native Americans’ use of the road picture’s generic patterns and contemporary tendencies in order to tell their own experiences of the road journey is investigated.en_US
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dc.description.statementofresponsibilityGümüş, Yaseminen_US
dc.format.extentviii, 174 leavesen_US
dc.identifier.itemidBILKUTUPB108854
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/14694
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectNative Americansen_US
dc.subjectWesternen_US
dc.subjectAmerican Indian Movementen_US
dc.subjectRevisionismen_US
dc.subjectRoad filmen_US
dc.subjectLandscapeen_US
dc.subjectJourneyen_US
dc.subject.lccPN1995.9.R63 G85 2008en_US
dc.subject.lcshRoad films--History and criticism.en_US
dc.subject.lcshIndians in motion pictures.en_US
dc.titleA cultural renewal : native Americans in road moviesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineMedia and Visual Studies
thesis.degree.grantorBilkent University
thesis.degree.levelMaster's
thesis.degree.nameMA (Master of Arts)

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