Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”

In Said´s notion of “Orientalism” as a set of discursive practices through which the West structured the imagined East, the Czech Republic (or former Czechoslovakia) in particular, and so called Eastern Europe in general, has been viewed by “the West” as a space inhabited by “exotic other”. The form...

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Main Author:	Šavelková Lívia
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 2016-06-01
Series:	Ethnologia Actualis
Subjects:	visual representation ethnographic film post-socialism native americans political correctness noble savage stereotype reflexivity
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/eas-2017-0012

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spelling	doaj-e91e5f2392fd4a41bd5c41fdf8c51bd72021-09-05T20:44:45ZengSciendoEthnologia Actualis1339-78772016-06-0117113315410.1515/eas-2017-0012eas-2017-0012Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”Šavelková Lívia0Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech RepublicIn Said´s notion of “Orientalism” as a set of discursive practices through which the West structured the imagined East, the Czech Republic (or former Czechoslovakia) in particular, and so called Eastern Europe in general, has been viewed by “the West” as a space inhabited by “exotic other”. The former socialist countries (and the so called post-socialist countries) have been constructing their own “Orients” and “exotic others” as well including Noble Savage stereotype of Native Americans. This paper focuses on a visual (re)presentation of a meeting between people who might have mutually constructed each other as the “exotic other”. Based on filming of a visit of a Native American sport team competing in the Czech Republic, the paper would like to discuss who are the “exotic ones” and for whom and the methodological issues related to the creation of the cross-cultural ethnographic films.https://doi.org/10.1515/eas-2017-0012visual representationethnographic filmpost-socialismnative americanspolitical correctnessnoble savage stereotypereflexivity
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title	Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”
title_short	Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”
title_full	Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”
title_fullStr	Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”
title_full_unstemmed	Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”
title_sort	cross-cultural filmmaking as a process of self-reflection: filming native americans within central european space’s prevailing imagery of the “noble savage”
publisher	Sciendo
series	Ethnologia Actualis
issn	1339-7877
publishDate	2016-06-01
description	In Said´s notion of “Orientalism” as a set of discursive practices through which the West structured the imagined East, the Czech Republic (or former Czechoslovakia) in particular, and so called Eastern Europe in general, has been viewed by “the West” as a space inhabited by “exotic other”. The former socialist countries (and the so called post-socialist countries) have been constructing their own “Orients” and “exotic others” as well including Noble Savage stereotype of Native Americans. This paper focuses on a visual (re)presentation of a meeting between people who might have mutually constructed each other as the “exotic other”. Based on filming of a visit of a Native American sport team competing in the Czech Republic, the paper would like to discuss who are the “exotic ones” and for whom and the methodological issues related to the creation of the cross-cultural ethnographic films.
topic	visual representation ethnographic film post-socialism native americans political correctness noble savage stereotype reflexivity
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Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”

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