• Director: John Bishop, Harald Prins
  • Release Year: 2003
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Run Time: 54 minutes

Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!

Description

Some indigenous peoples welcome film and other Western recording technologies as a way to educate people and preserve their traditions; some Native Americans in the United States, though, refuse to allow their sacred traditions to be recorded, preferring their possible loss to the intrusion. If film is both a means of preserving vanishing traditions and one of the architects of its destruction, can its impact on these cultures be truly measured?

Themes

Indigenous peoples, Modernization, Spirituality, Film history, Ethnography, Colonialism, Post-colonialism, Cultural history, Historiography, Tradition and culture, Cultural appropriation