Question

Answer the following about visual sovereignty, the process by which Indigenous filmmakers reclaim their identity in media, for 10 points each.
[10e] Lily Gladstone translated scenes into Osage (“OH-sayj”) and helped to restructure this 2023 Martin Scorsese epic to avoid telling a “white-savior” narrative.
ANSWER: Killers of the Flower Moon
[10m] Jennifer McMahon noted how Brady Jandreau subverted stereotypes in his portrayal of a traumatized rodeo star in this director’s film The Rider. This Chinese-American director’s other Western-like films include Nomadland.
ANSWER: Chloé Zhao [or Zhào Tíng]
[10h] Michelle Raheja (“ruh-HAY-juh”) examined visual sovereignty in an essay titled for Nanook of the North and this 2001 Canadian film by Zacharias Kunuk that adapted an Inuit legend of a man who flees naked over the ice from a rival chieftain.
ANSWER: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner [accept “Reading Nanook’s Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)”]
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Cornell BCornell A100010
RIT ACornell C0000
RIT BBinghamton1010020