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

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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