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Native Americans on network TV : stereotypes, myths, and the "good Indian" /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: FitzGerald, Michael Ray, 1953-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Series:Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
Subjects:
Indians on television.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: origins and applications of stereotypes
  • From Pocahontas to "Superfink"
  • Cold War avengers: the Lone Ranger and Tonto in The Lone Ranger (1949-1957)
  • Hollywood-ized history: Cochise in Broken Arrow (1956-1958)
  • Son of Tonto: Sam Buckhart in Law of the Plainsman (1959-1960)
  • Mingo: Cochise of Kentucky in Daniel Boone (1964-1970)
  • Regulator on the urban frontier: Hawk (1966)
  • Billy Jack returns
  • as a cop: Nakia (1974)
  • The indianized white hero: Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001)
  • Televisual quasi-history: retrospective justification for conquest.