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This illuminating essay uses film scenes to tell of the forced cultural appropriation of a world-famous landscape.
Monument Valley is one of the most recognizable landscapes in the world. Its iconographic use in American Westerns has had a lasting influence on stock photography, advertising, and tourism. The valley has been given mythical significance as an image of a “primitive West” firmly in the hands of white people and meant to be protected from intruders. The fact that Monument Valley is traditional Navajo territory has been obscured in the process.
A radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising since John Ford’s STAGECOACH (1939), THE TAKING scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo land came to embody the fantasy of the “Old West,” replete with self-perpetuating falsehoods, and why it continues to hold mythic significance in the global psyche.
This tense, touching, and funny portrait of family dynamics follows three estranged sisters as they converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
A poor little boy wins a ticket to visit the inside of a mysterious and magical chocolate factory.
A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his “farewell” television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.
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