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Cowboy imperialism and Hollywood film / Mark Cronlund Anderson.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.W4 A53 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Mark Cronlund, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western films--United States--History and criticism.
- Western films.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Frontier and pioneer life--United States.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects.
- Cinéma--Aspect politique--États-Unis.
- Vie des pionniers--États-Unis.
- Westerns--États-Unis--Histoire et critique.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Cinéma--Aspect politique--États-Unis.
- Vie des pionniers--États-Unis.
- Westerns--États-Unis--Histoire et critique.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, ©2007.
- Summary:
- "Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film 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 The Green Berets to Raiders of the Lost Ark, from Red River to Hidalgo. Others, from Full Metal Jacket to The Big Lebowski."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- A theory of American evolution: origination of a chosen people
- The imperial in residence: who's your daddy
- The empire's new clothes: getting naked
- Being not it! (and other teleological silliness)
- Ritual war: the only good indian
- Back to the future: frontier westerns and the final frontier
- Lying line laying: remembering the Alamo
- Mirror, mirror: imperialism is a palindrome.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223), filmography (p. 213-214) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Anderson, Mark Cronlund, 1960- Cowboy imperialism and Hollywood film.
- ISBN:
- 9780820495453
- 082049545X
- OCLC:
- 77011556
- Publisher Number:
- 90101859564
- 9780820495453
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