Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film

This title is winner of ""Choice Outstanding Academic Title"", 2008. ""Killing the Indian Maiden"" examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. Through discussion of thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role of the 'Celluloid Maiden' - a young Native woman who allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice. Marubbio intertwines theories of colonization, gender, race, and film studies to ground her study in sociohistorical context, all in order to define what it means to be an American.