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Bearing Witness. Cover Image E-video E-video

Bearing Witness.

Kuperberg, Clara, (film director.). Kuperberg, Julia, (film director.). Bedard, Irene, (actor.). Cardinal, Tantoo, (actor.). Bridgestone Multimedia Group (Firm), (Distributor). Kanopy (Firm), (Distributor).

Summary:

Hollywood Westerns long portrayed Native Americans as villains, glorifying Manifest Destiny and hiding genocide. In the 1960s-70s, films like Little Big Man and Soldier Blue finally humanized them and showed the massacres they endured.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
  • Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Bridgestone Multimedia Group, 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Participant or Performer Note:
Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Originally produced by Bridgestone Multimedia Group in 2024.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Mass media.
Digital communications.
Arts.
Motion pictures.
Foreign study.
Documentary films.
Indigenous peoples.
Ethnicity.
Mass media and culture.
Artists.
Indians of North America.
United States--History.
United States.
Motion pictures--History.
Popular culture.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Genre: Documentary films.

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Summary: Hollywood Westerns long portrayed Native Americans as villains, glorifying Manifest Destiny and hiding genocide. In the 1960s-70s, films like Little Big Man and Soldier Blue finally humanized them and showed the massacres they endured.

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