The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film

Introduction: Indigenous Filmmaking Throughout the World—Making Film Mino-Bimaadiziwin Ernie Blackmore, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Gay Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox

Part I: Decolonial Intermedialities and Revisions of Western Media

1. MooNaHaTihKaaSiWew/Unearthing Spirit Framework Jules A. Koostachin

2. Telling Time: Confronting Ethnography in Alanis Obomsawin’s Documentaries Tia Wong

3. Barry Barclay’s Ngāti (1987) and Merata Mita’s Mauri (1988): A Whakapapa/Genealogy of Māori Fiction Film as Fourth Cinema Deborah Walker-Morrison

4. Waru (2017) and Vai (2019): Moana Sisters "Doing It for Themselves," Each Other, and Their Communities Marina Alofagia McCartney and Deborah Walker-Morrison

5. "We Are Not Dead"—Decolonizing the Frame: First Australians, The Tall Man, Coniston and First Contact Jeni Thornley

6. Acts of Translation in Ten Canoes Corinn Columpar

Part II: Colonial Histories, Trauma, Resistances

7. Exploring the Cultural Activism of 2501 Migrants: A Journey Annette L. Rukwied

8. Recipes for Survival: Muffins for Granny and the Legacy of Residential Schooling Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson

9. "Our Land Now": Barking Water Looks to the Land and Beyond Lee Schweninger

10. "For Spirits, Time Doesn’t Exist": Haunting and Homecoming in the Thriller Imprint Manuela Müller

11. Nils Gaup's Ofelas as Pathfinder and Pathbreaker for Indigenous Cinema Martin Holtz

12. "The World Is Disintegrating": Eco-Trauma and the Representation of Mining in Catriona McKenzie’s Satellite Boy (2012) Victoria Herche

13. "Two Parts Broken Heart and One Part Hope": Violence and Historical Trauma in Skins, Bearwalker and Once Were Warriors Wendy Gay Pearson

Part III: Indigenous Lands, Communities, Bodies

14. Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz Itandehui Jansen

15. Making Accented Indigenous Transnational Community Cinema: Tiempo de Lluvia/In Times of Rain by Itandehui Jansen Deborah Shaw

16. Busong (Palawan Fate) and the Decolonization of Health Adam Szymanski

17. The Land Has Eyes: Letter from the Island Gerd Becker

18. Romancing the Land: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen and the Circumvention of Colonial Landscapes Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove

19. Culture, Self, and Place in Liselotte Wajstedt’s Documentaries Stefan Holander

20. Nuummioq and Anori: Modernity, Land, and a Mythic Past in Greenlandic Cinema Kerstin Knopf

Part IV: Queer Cultures and Border Crossings

21. Constellating Bakla Desire in Auraeus Solito’s The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros Christian Ylagan

22. Captive Audience: Erotohistoriography in Kent Monkman’s Group of Seven Inches Kevin Shaw

23. Moving Again: Two-Spirit Critique, (Indigi)Queer Hope, and Fire Song Josh Morrison

24. Power in the Blood: Boundary Crossing and Bloodletting in Randy Redroad’s The Doe Boy Joshua B. Nelson

25. Transgressing the Borders of Being: Hacktivism, Posthumanism, and Technological Paradoxes in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008) Corina Wieser-Cox 

Part V: Youth Cultures and Emancipation

26. Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes for Young Ghouls: In the Lair of the Ogre André Dudemaine

27. "It is No Longer a Guilt Game": Anger, Empowerment, and Intercultural Dialogue in Tracy Deer’s Mohawk Girls (2005) Natália Pinazza

28. Yändia'wich: The Great Turtle’s Account of Mesnak Guy Sioui Durand

29. "Who We Are Now": Iñupiaq Youth On the Ice Joanna Hearne

30. Running Up Heartbreak Hill: Making Life Livable on the Edge of America Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval

31. Canned Dreams and Lucid Nightmares: Katja Gauriloff and the "Cinema of Precarity" Kate Moffat

32. Schism of a Nation: The Remnants of Colonization's Deleterious Impact on Aboriginal Self-Representation, Identity, and Independence as Represented in Toomelah Emme Devonish

Part VI: Art, Comedy, and Music

33. Shelley Niro’s Kissed by Lightning and Her Painted Series "Peacemaker’s Journey" as Forms of Indigenous Resistance through Artistic Expression Stephanie Pratt

34. Reggae Sounds in Maori Cinema: Creating Spaces of in-between in The Pā Boys Nele Rein

35. Comic Seriousness in Stone Bros. (2009) Geoff Rodoreda

36. Bran Nue Day: Singing the Songs of Our Era Felicity Collins

37. "Love and Affection, to the Bone": Identity and Reconciliation in Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires Susan Knabe and Ernie Blackmore

Index

Biography

Ernie Blackmore is a retired Lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Kerstin Knopf is Professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Wendy Gay Pearson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Corina Wieser-Cox is a Ph.D. candidate in Queer Mexican and Latinx film and research assistant at the University of Bremen, Germany.

"Comprehensive in scope and profound in intellectual incisiveness, this book explores, in very accessible writing, a 'global' Indigenous cinema that needs more visibility. A must-read for film scholars and students." 

Anthony Adah, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA