Imagens que pensam o outro: o índio no cinema de John Ford.

Abstract

This study addresses the image of the Indian in the John Ford cinema. Beyond a mere description of the films, we undertook a mode of analysis that also owns the film production aspects, circulation and consumption, in addition to their ability to provoke thoughts on Indigenous and American history. Thus, aware that the image is crossed by numerous temporalities that battle it out inside, we highlight what Georges Didi-Huberman will call symptomatic images which allow us to think the survival of the western tradition forms, invented in the nineteenth century . Our use of several figures, however, seeks to escape his typical instrumentation as "illustration" of the written speech. The images in our study, on the other hand, appear as propositoras of thought to the text. Initially, we undertook an analysis of how the western tradition is invented while in the nineteenth century in the United States. Then discuss how this image file survives in the John Ford film, from the movie The Iron Horse in 1924 to Cheyenne Autumn in 1964. As for the temporality had to take ownership of the anachronistic model of analysis of images defended by Georges Didi -Huberman. Similarly, with Etienne Samain, we discuss how these images think and summon us to think the Indians, this Other that we speak.