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Navajo talking picture

Confrontation between a Navajo grandmother living in the old ways of her people and her film producer granddaughter who is trying to recapture lost terrain. Barriers of language and racism surface in this self-reflective documentary, as do issues of relationships between generations, forced dominant-culture assimilation, and cultural etiquette.

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  • "Confrontation between a Navajo grandmother living in the old ways of her people and her film producer granddaughter who is trying to recapture lost terrain. Barriers of language and racism surface in this self-reflective documentary, as do issues of relationships between generations, forced dominant-culture assimilation, and cultural etiquette."@en
  • "In the process of trying to document the life of her aging grandmother, Ann Ruth Biah, Arlene Bowman discovers how little she knows of her grandmother and of her grandmother's life on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. This documentary shows us the simple and self-sufficient lifestyle life by Ann Ruth; one that is governed by the Navajo traditions and that has little time or patience for documentary filmmaking."@en
  • "Documents the life of Arlene Bowman's grandmother on the Navajo Reservation in Lower Greasewood, Arizona."@en
  • "Documents the life of Arlene Bowman's grandmother on the Navajo Reservation in Lower Greasewood, Arizona."
  • "Documents the life of Arlene Bowman's grandmother on the Navajo Reservation in Lower Greasewood, Arizona; then, documents the filming of her granddaughter, who does not know Navajo, as she tries to get help interpreting for another film that she'll be in along with her grandmother. Looks at the contrasting attitudes of her grandmother, living and thinking in traditional ways, to being filmed and granddaughter as the urbanized filmmaker who grew up speaking English among white people."@en

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  • "Video tapes"@en
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Ethnographic films"@en
  • "Biographical films"@en
  • "Documentaries and factual films and videos"

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  • "Navajo talking picture"@en
  • "Navajo talking picture"
  • "Navajo talking picture a film"@en