{"product_id":"unsettling-sights-corinn-columpar-9780809329625","title":"Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film\u003c\/i\u003e examines the politics of representing Aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous theory to frame her discussion of the cinematic construction and transnational circulation of Aboriginality. The result is a broad interdisciplinary analysis of how Indigeneity is represented in cinema, supported by more than twenty rigorous and theoretically informed case studies of contemporary feature films by both First- and Fourth-World filmmakers in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Columpar relies heavily on textual analysis of the films but also explores contextual issues in filmmaking such as funding, personnel, modes of production, and means of distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart one of \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Sights\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on contact narratives in which the Aboriginal subject is constructed in reactive response to a colonizing or invading presence. Films such as \u003ci\u003eThe Piano \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Proposition\u003c\/i\u003e, wherein a white man \"goes native,\" and \u003ci\u003eThe New World \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Map of the Human Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, which approach contact from the perspective of an Aboriginal character, serve as occasions to examine the ways in which Aboriginal identities are negotiated within dominant cinema. Part two shifts the focus from contact narratives to films that seek to define Aboriginality on its own terms, with reference to a (lost) homeland and\/or Indigenous practices of (hi)story-telling: while texts such as \u003ci\u003eOnce Were Warriors \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSmoke Signals\u003c\/i\u003e foster an engagement with issues of deterritorialization, relocation, and urbanization, discussion of \u003ci\u003ebeDevil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAtanarjuat\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Business of Fancydancing\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ebring questions of voice, translation, and the relationship between cinema and oral tradition to the forefront. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnsettling Sights\u003c\/i\u003e is the first significant, scholarly examination of Aboriginality and cinema in an international context and will be invaluable to scholars and students in many fields including cinema studies, anthropology, critical race studies, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Corinn Columpar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080932962X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809329625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2011","brand":"Corinn Columpar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086902112511,"sku":"9780809329625","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4bf30a11-1ac9-4251-b3d2-29a5079575ea.jpg?v=1769097223","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unsettling-sights-corinn-columpar-9780809329625","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}