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Book SynopsisThis incisive, provocative, and wide-ranging book casts a critical eye on the representation of Native Americans in the Western film since the genre's beginnings. Armando José Prats shows the ways in which film reflects cultural transformations in the...
Trade ReviewPrats makes a serious addition to that growing body of literature.... Prats's book considers a wide variety of films—from classic silents like 'The Covered Wagon' to revisionist westerns of the 1990s like 'Dances with Wolves' and 'Geronimo'—taking sufficient time to offer careful, nuanced readings.
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When we do see Native Americans in Hollywood Westerns, Prats suggests that they are often mute (or if they do communicate, do so in grunts and hand gestures), nameless, sometimes even faceless. They are defined by their otherness, and their otherness is itself defined by absence—absence of a voice, of a name, of a face.... Invisible Natives will be appreciated by scholars interested in representations of Native Americans, the American Frontier, and by all those who watched Saturday matinees as a child.
-- Peter N. Peregrine * Great Plains Quarterly *
