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Native Americans and American Film

• How bloodthirsty/noble savage images, manifest destiny, genocide influenced representations 104
  
• How ethnographic films functioned to naturalize stereotypes of Native Americans 106
  
• Key themes and iconography of the Classical Western (be able to give examples from films) 106-108
  
• Why post-WWII social problem films focusing on Native Americans were still problematic 110
  
• How images/involvement of Native Americans in film has and has not changed over time 102-122
  
• Positive and negative images of Native Americans in contemporary film (give examples) 115, 118