Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”, Avatar (2009), and the Representation of Native Americans in Hollywood Film

Though lauded for its groundbreaking special effects, the narrative of James Cameron’s popular motion picture Avatar (2009) was criticized for being similar to the 1995 Walt Disney animated feature Pocahontas and Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves (1990). Reflecting a convergence of the western and...

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review

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