Le Blanc et son Autre: la figure de l’Indien dans le cinéma hollywoodien contemporain

Through examples of recently produced American films belonging to different genres – neowestern, drama, comedy and even science fiction - this article intends to show that white (anti)-heroes are still present and central to the narrative, and are presented in the end as better Indians than the Indians themselves. More importantly, the way whiteness is represented can only be fully understood by analyzing the construction of the Indian characters who, like an intaglio portrait, shape the character of the White Savior, validating his existence and enhancing it. Today still, whiteness depends on the inherent subordination of Indianness and feeds on its disappearance.

Abstract licence: CC BY-NC

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