Native Features

After spending many years as a macadamia nut farmer, Houston Wood earned his PhD in English from the University of Hawaii in 1996 and now teaches there. His previous publications include The Reality of Ethnomethodology (with Hugh Mehan), Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i, and various journal articles.

"Libraries strong in international film and culture need Houston Wood's Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World...the first book to examine films made by indigenous people. It analyzes over fifty such films now in circulation, considering cultural stereotypes, and impact of both well-known and seldom-seen films, and considering the careers of major actors and directors. Both a aregional and world-wide approach allows for an outstanding series of perspectives." -Midwest Book Review, (The Bookwatch), December 2008

• Preface; Part One: Indigenous Films Come of Age; Chapter 1: Approaching Indigenous Films; Chapter 2: "Indigenous" Hits: Adapting Native Stories for Film; Chapter 3: Four Indigenous Directors: Barry Barclay, Chris Eyre, Bahman Ghobadi, and Zacharias Kunuk; Chapter 4: The Uses and Abuses of Indigenous Film; Chapter 5: Indigenous Film Aesthetics: Content, Form, and Process; Part Two: Indigenous Film Regions. Chapter 6: North American Indigenous Films; Chapter 7: Latin American and Caribbean Indigenous Films; Chapter 8: Arctic Indigenous Films; Chapter 9: Oceanic Indigenous Films; Chapter 10: Australian Indigenous Films; Chapter 11: Middle-Eastern and Asian Indigenous Films; Chapter 12: African Indigenous Films; Chapter 13: Future Indigenous Films; Appendix A: List of Indigenous People by Region; Appendix B: List of Indigenous Film Festivals; Appendix C: List of Indigenous Film Distributors.