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    [paper_index] => 202506-01-022323
    [title] => RESTORING NARRATIVES: HOW POST-TRUTH POLITICS AFFECTS THE MODERN FILM REPRESENTATION OF AMERICAN INDIANS
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    [author] => N.R.Gopal
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    [year] => 2025
    [month] => June
    [volume] => 11
    [issue] => 6
    [file] => fm/jpanel/upload/2025/June/202506-01-022323.pdf
    [abstract] => The post-truth era is characterized by a shift from an emphasis on objective historical data to a concentration on the personal narratives that often mold such realities. Within this framework, American Indian cinema occupies a vital space for addressing the historical inaccuracies that distort representations of American Indian identity. This paper analyzes the work of Indigenous filmmakers who are contemporaneously confronting the manipulations of history and identity that are so prevalent in a post-truth society. Whereas films produced by Hollywood have traditionally sustained inaccurate portrayals of Indigenous peoples, such as the idea that they have somehow disappeared or are barbaric, movies directed by American Indians are providing not only a much-needed balance but also an unfettered reclamation of visual authority vis-à-vis their peoples and cultures. This paper explores how films like Smoke Signals (1998), Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and the series American Primeval (2025), confront misinformation and the erasure of history in the narratives they present. It highlights the growing impact of digital activism and social media on Indigenous storytelling, with those new platforms enabling a much more direct confrontation with the opposing settler-colonial narratives that have long dominated as authoritative. And it contends that, far from being confined to artistic expression, Indigenous cinema represents a powerful and instructive decolonial intervention in ways that very much matter for the putative post-truth era.
    [keywords] => Indigenous Cinema, Post-Truth, Historical Erasure, Visual Sovereignty, Decolonial Resistance, Digital Activism, American Indian Identity, Cultural Reclamation.
    [doj] => 2025-06-10
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    [journalname] => EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR)
    [short_code] => IJMR
    [eissn] =>  2455-3662 (Online)
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