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Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

explores how Hollywood has employed the frontier myth to sanction imperial behavior. This cultural project integrates the myth, America’s secular creation story, with Manifest Destiny, the sugar-coated impetus to conquer without compunction. Through Hollywood – the history teacher who reaches the largest audiences – the imagery of conquest has become effectively naturalized, glorified, and personified in the guise of the mythical frontiersman, such as John Wayne and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. This book examines eighteen movies, ranging from to from to Others, from to to posit intriguing revisionist frontier tales.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-0-8204-9545-3 / 978-0820495453 / 9780820495453

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.2007

Seiten: 232

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Mark Cronlund Anderson

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