Rutherford, Jack (2023) Standing Rock and its Ancestors. Third Text, 37 (4). pp. 449-466. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2292447
Rutherford, Jack (2023) Standing Rock and its Ancestors. Third Text, 37 (4). pp. 449-466. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2292447
Rutherford, Jack (2023) Standing Rock and its Ancestors. Third Text, 37 (4). pp. 449-466. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2292447
Abstract
This article considers the documentary film, Taking Alcatraz (John Ferry, 2015), in the context of US-Indigenous history. The documentary form presents alternative ideas and futures beyond those dominant in the US imagination and run counter to stereotypical representations of Native Americans found in the Western genre. The 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz can be seen as part of a history of political dissent by Indigenous peoples whilst the (mediated) nature of film reinvigorate and reanimate ideas such as those employed at Alcatraz – perceived dormant since the closure of the prison, save for the eighteen months of Indigenous occupation, commencing in 1969. At the heart of this analysis is the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty which returned all unused land to Native peoples, prompting the Occupation, and how this event is offered continued context and urgency whilst opening previously closed dialogues of Indigenous history; stressing the power of the (moving) image.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2024 09:26 |
Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2024 10:47 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37608 |
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