Film screening - "Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian" - March 30
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Lucy Manchester
Mar 27, 2012, 5:26:24 PM3/27/12
to Aboriginal Health Interest Group at McGill
McGill University’s Aboriginal Sustainability Project and the Redpath
Museum’s Freaky Friday Program is proud to announce that we will be
hosting a film screening and Q & A with producer Christina Fon:
‘Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian’
Join us afterward with a discussion with one of the producers on the
film, Christina Fon.
Cree director Neil Diamond brings a wry and slightly mischievous wit
to this insightful and entertaining documentary that traces the
evolution of the powerful images of "the Indian" in Hollywood movies"
These images have influenced the understanding (and misunderstanding)
of North American Natives in almost every corner of the world and have
locked the North American natives into powerful stereotypes, from
which they only recently started to break loose.
With clips from classic and modern films, candid interviews with
famous Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors, and activists
such as Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson, Wes Studi, Adam Beach,
Graham Greene, John Trudell and Russell Means, as well as documentary
sequences, where filmmaker Diamond guides us through the contemporary
Native stereotyped and non-stereotyped landscape. REEL INJUN is a
smart and entertaining exploration of pop culture, America's myths and
Hollywood's fantasies about the "Indians of the Wild West".
Visit our Facebook event page : https://www.facebook.com/events/414696768547607/
Friday, March 30
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium Redpath Museum
McGill University
FREE ADMISSION
Museum’s Freaky Friday Program is proud to announce that we will be
hosting a film screening and Q & A with producer Christina Fon:
‘Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian’
Join us afterward with a discussion with one of the producers on the
film, Christina Fon.
Cree director Neil Diamond brings a wry and slightly mischievous wit
to this insightful and entertaining documentary that traces the
evolution of the powerful images of "the Indian" in Hollywood movies"
These images have influenced the understanding (and misunderstanding)
of North American Natives in almost every corner of the world and have
locked the North American natives into powerful stereotypes, from
which they only recently started to break loose.
With clips from classic and modern films, candid interviews with
famous Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors, and activists
such as Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson, Wes Studi, Adam Beach,
Graham Greene, John Trudell and Russell Means, as well as documentary
sequences, where filmmaker Diamond guides us through the contemporary
Native stereotyped and non-stereotyped landscape. REEL INJUN is a
smart and entertaining exploration of pop culture, America's myths and
Hollywood's fantasies about the "Indians of the Wild West".
Visit our Facebook event page : https://www.facebook.com/events/414696768547607/
Friday, March 30
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium Redpath Museum
McGill University
FREE ADMISSION
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