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[Commlist] New book: Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands

Fri Feb 04 20:51:02 GMT 2022





We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Nebraska Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Cinematic Comanches***

The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands

*Dustin Tahmahkera***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780803286887/cinematic-comanches/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780803286887/cinematic-comanches/>_*

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“Exceptional. . . . Written with energy and a capacious critical sensibility, /Cinematic Comanches/feels like the ‘Yes, we can!’ of Indigenous film and media criticism. It is also voraciously interdisciplinary and beautifully executes some of the primary challenges of public intellectual work—to be both learned and hip, both theoretically sophisticated and accessible for undergraduates, both deeply historical and relevant to this very moment.”*—Joanna Hearne, author of **/Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western/*

“Tahmahkera writes in an engaging and sometimes humorous style that is generally devoid of academic jargon, which makes it accessible to students yet sophisticated enough in its theoretical grounding to appeal to scholars of Indigenous and media studies.”*—Dominique Brégent-Heald, author of **/Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era/*

For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops with the so-called fall of the Comanche empire in 1875, when Quanah Parker led Comanches onto the reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. In /Cinematic Comanches/, the first tribal-specific history of Comanches in film and media, Parker descendant Dustin Tahmahkera examines how Comanches represent themselves and are represented by others in recent media. Telling a story of Comanche family and extended kin and their relations to film, Tahmahkera reframes a distorted and defeated history of Comanches into a vibrant story of cinematic traditions, agency, and cultural continuity.

Co-starring a long list of Comanche actors, filmmakers, consultants, critics, and subjects, /Cinematic Comanches/moves through the politics of tribal representation and history to highlight the production of Comanchería cinema. From early silent films and 1950s Westerns to Disney’s /The Lone Ranger/and the story of how Comanches captured its controversial Comanche lead Johnny Depp, Tahmahkera argues that Comanche nationhood can be strengthened through cinema. Tahmahkera’s extensive research includes interviews with elder LaDonna Harris, who adopted Depp during filming in one of the most contested films in recent Indigenous cinematic history. In the fragmented popular narrative of the rise and fall of Comanches, /Cinematic Comanches/calls for considering mediated contributions to the cultural resurgence of Comanches today.

*Dustin Tahmahkera*(Comanche) is the Wick Cary Chair of Native American Cultural Studies in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of /Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms./


*University of Nebraska Press | Indigenous Films | January 2022 | 288pp | 9780803286887 | PB | £26.99**

*Price subject to change.

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