L'amérindien et ses représentations cinématographiques : du mythe à l'anthropologie ?
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Abstract EN:
As soon as christopher columbus discovered america, he described the native american but he miscontructed him, modified him according to his view, to his way of thinking. Those modifications have been established in writings, drawings, photographs and movies. Through an anthropological study, the indian and his different images will be analysed in order to understand how such a character could have been transformed to this level, how he gets reduced to some signs, to a couple of hints which erase all the other features. Only few tribes can be noticed in films in order to preserve this already mutilated image. Anyway, the audience would rather recognize than knowing it which makes the spectator dreaming even if the image is not genuine.
Abstract FR:
Des sa decouverte, christophe colomb a represente l'amerindien en l'interpretant, en y apportant de nombreuses modifications qui correspondaient a sa vision, a sa facon de penser. Celles-ci se sont etablies dans les ecrits, les dessins, les photographies et les films. A travers une etude anthropologique, l'indien et ses differentes images seront analysees afin de comprendre de quelles facons un personnage a pu etre transforme a ce point et se retrouver reduit a quelques signes, a quelques indices qui effacent toutes les autres caracteristiques. Ainsi, quelques tribus seulement sont utilisees au cinema afin de preserver cette image deja tronquee. De toute facon, le public prefere reconnaitre que connaitre cette image qui le fait rever meme si elle n'est pas authentique.