Research and teaching areas:
Film studies, Native American
studies, folklore
Joanna Hearne
Joanna Hearne teaches and writes
on topics in film studies, Native American studies, and
folklore, with research interests in indigenous media,
Westerns, early cinema, animation, and issues of ethnicity
in film history and theory. She
has published articles in Screen, the Journal
of Popular Film and Television, Western Folklore,
and Film and History, and her work appeared
in the collection Hollywood's West: The American
Frontier in Film, Television, and History (University
Press of Kentucky, 2005). Her current book
project, Family Claims: Indigenous Narratives, Cinema,
and the Western, traces cinematic representations
of Native American children and families in the 20th
century.
Education PhD 2004, University of Arizona
Selected Publications
Joanna Hearne. "Telling and Retelling in the 'Ink of Light': Documentary Cinema, Oral Narratives, and Indigenous Identities." Screen 47:3 (Autumn 2006): 307-326.
Joanna Hearne. "Race and Ethnicity," "Julie Dash," and "James Young Deer and Princess Red Wing." Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film Eds. Barry Keith Grant, Janet Staiger, Jim Hillier and David Desser. Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale Publishing, December 2006.
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 / Reges Indigenas. December 8, 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. www.kentuckypress.com
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. 64.233.167.104
Courses Taught
English 1810: Introduction to Film: Beginning to 1945
English 2000: Studies in English
English 2000: Studies in English
English 3110: Special Themes in Literature: History of Documentary Film
English 4109/7109: Genres, 1890 to Present
English 8001: Topics in English
English 8110, Forms: Indigenous Media
English 8110: Forms
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