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Joanna Hearne teaches courses cross-listed with Film Studies. Her research and teaching focus on Native American and Indigenous film and media, Westerns, documentary film history, early cinema, animation, and issues of race and ethnicity in film history and theory. Her book Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western is forthcoming from SUNY Press. She recently completed a second book, Smoke Signals and the Emergence of Native American Cinema, for the Indigenous Film series at the University of Nebraska Press.

Education

PhD 2004, University of Arizona

Selected Publications

• Joanna Hearne. "'Indians Watching Indians on TV': Native Spectatorship and the Politics of Recognition in Skins and Smoke Signals." Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art. Ed. Denise K. Cummings. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. In press.
• Joanna Hearne. "Indigenous Animation: Educational Programming, Narrative Interventions, and Children's Cultures." Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics. Eds. Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. 89-108. [PDF]
• Joanna Hearne. "Telling and Retelling in the 'Ink of Light': Documentary Cinema, Oral Narratives, and Indigenous Identities." Screen 47:3 (Autumn 2006): 307-326. [PDF]
• Joanna Hearne. "'John Wayne's Teeth': Speech, Sound and Representation in Smoke Signals and Imagining Indians." Western Folklore 64:3&4 ("Folklore and Film" special issue, Summer and Fall 2005): 189-208.
• Joanna Hearne. "House Made of Dawn: Restoring Native Voices in Cinema." Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Film and Video Center. Native Networks / Redes Indigenas. 2005. www.nativenetworks.si.edu
• Joanna Hearne. "The 'Ache for Home': Assimilation and Separatism in Anthony Mann's Devil's Doorway (1950)." Hollywood's Wests: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History. Eds. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 126-159. [PDF]
• Joanna Hearne. "'The Cross-Heart People: Race and Inheritance in the Silent Western" Journal of Popular Film and Television 30:4 (Winter 2003): 181-196. [PDF]

Courses Taught

• Indigenous Media (graduate)
• Professional Studies: The Job Workshop (graduate)
• Introduction to Film Studies Research and Pedagogy (graduate)
• Film Theory (undergraduate/graduate)
• Native American Film and Video (undergraduate/graduate)
• The Western (graduate/undergraduate)
• Vampires in Literature and Film (undergraduate/graduate)
• Documentary Film History (undergraduate)
• American Film History I: beginnings to 1950 (undergraduate)
• American Film History II: 1950 to the present (undergraduate)
• Introduction to Film Analysis (undergraduate)
• Race and Melodrama (graduate independent study)
• Documenting Culture (undergraduate/graduate)