CHALLENGING THE STEREOTYPE OF NATIVE AMERICAN: A NEW HISTORICIST PERSPECTIVE IN ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU’S FILM THE REVENANT (2015)
For many years, Hollywood has visualized Native American as villain, fighting with white people, who happens to be always the hero. The representation of Native American in Hollywood films has caused disapproval among the native people themselves. Misconception about the history and its represent...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed |
| Language: | English English |
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2017
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| Summary: | For many years, Hollywood has visualized Native American as villain,
fighting with white people, who happens to be always the hero. The representation
of Native American in Hollywood films has caused disapproval among the native
people themselves. Misconception about the history and its representation occur
in most Hollywood films. The Revenant is one of Hollywood films that depicted
the historical conflict between Native American and white people in Arikara War.
However, The Revenant exposes the representation of history in a way that Native
Americans are not always the villain and white people are not always the hero.
This study aims to explore the portrayal of Native Americans during Arikara War
in The Revenant film by Alejandro G. Inarritu. This study attempts to reveal the
subjectivity of the film‟s director and screenwriter about challenging the
stereotype of Native Americans. Using qualitative approach as the method, this
study focus on how Native American represents in the film and what the director
and screenwriter‟s subjectivity in making this film. The primary data used is The
Revenant film. Narrative and Non-narrative aspects were used to support the
analysis. This study was examined by using Stephen Grenblatt‟s New Historicism
as the primary theory, which was elaborated in „Representation and Subjectivity‟.
The study reveals that The Revenant tries to challenge the stereotype of Native
American and creates new version of history of Arikara War as a critic to socialpolitical
condition in America today which is built by the director‟s subjectivity. |
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