赤から青へ : ハリウッドにおける伝統的なNative American MovieとしてのAvatar
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Avatar (2009) deserves to be regarded as a movie, which belongs to the genre of Traditional Native American Hollywood movies, because it propagates some of the American National Founding Myths. The plot of the movie Avatar, borrows three threads from traditional Native American movies. Firstly, a love story between a white man and the Princess of Native Americans, as in the story of Pocahontas and John Smith. Previously, the most recent retelling of this story was in the Disney movie Pocahontas (1995). Next is the Captivity Narrative, which usually means a biographical story based on the records of the early settlers that had been captured by Native Americans. These began with A Narrative of Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), and continue into more recent times with the movie Dances with Wolves (1990). Given that these original stories from the early American Colonization have repeatedly been recycled and reconstructed to romanticize the American Origin not only by American Society but also by Hollywood, Avatar use of similar plot lines means it should be regarded as a traditional Native American Hollywood movie. Thirdly, Avatar inherits stereotypical Native American images from Native American Hollywood movies. However, Avatar has also been influenced by the contemporary Native American ethnic movements. The aim of this paper is to examine how Avatar contributes to the discrimination against Native Americans and the diversification of the American Society by reproducing the American National Founding Myths for modern consumption.
- 2012-03-31