Monday, November 8, 2010

Images of American Indians in Comic Books (Compare/Contrast)



How does the imagery in this title below differ from the above problematic imagery? What iconic signs are used to represent "Indianess" in the below and above titled?

Short Documentary on "Yellow Apparel"

Ok, this may seem to come a few weeks too late, but the documentary below touches on our discussion of Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze quite well:

yellow apparel: when the coolie becomes cool from Yellow Apparel on Vimeo.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Redux on the Occidental Gaze and Orientalism?

I don't know how I missed this recent example, but it addresses our pre midterm discussion of Orientalism in popular culture and the misuse use of perceived ethnic signs of difference as a site of commodification: