Emergence of the celluloid maiden -- The celluloid princess. Death, gratitude, and the squaw man's wife : the cellu
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English Pages (xiii, 298 pages) : illustrations Year 2009;2006
Table of contents :
Emergence of the celluloid maiden --
The celluloid princess. Death, gratitude, and the squaw man's wife : the celluloid princess from 1908 to 1931 --
White-painted lady : the 1950s celluloid princess --
The sexualized maiden. What lies beneath the surface : the sexualized maiden of the 1940s --
The only good Indian is a dead Indian : the sexualized maiden of the 1950s and 1960s --
The hybrid celluloid maiden. Free love and violence : "going Native ' with the celluloid maiden in the 1970s --
Ghosts and vanishing Indian women : death of the celluloid maiden in the 1990s --
Into the twenty-first century.