Bear with me : a cultural history of famous bears in America / Daniel Horowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horowitz, Daniel, 1938- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bears--Folklore.

Bears.

Bears--United States--Folklore.

Bears in literature.

Bears in art.

Bears (Gay culture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 267 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Cultural history of famous bears in America

Famous bears in America

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Bear with Me offers a vibrant history of famous bears in North American culture from the colonial period to the present. Daniel Horowitz considers the cultural significance of the proliferation of representations of bears in American popular media, arguing that these representations offer a window into both the nation's history and the psychic and affective lives of its peoples. Through the examination of various celebrity bears, Horowitz uncovers an ambivalent cultural archive of empathy, exploitation, identification, and domination in the interplay between human and ursine life-worlds. This investigation carries Horowitz across a vast terrain of references from the presence of bears in children's literature-such as Winnie the Pooh and Paddington-to cinematic representations in The Revenant and Cocaine Bear, to the subculture of gay bears. Finally, Horowitz bookends the manuscript with reflections on polar bears, considering how they've come to stand as symbols of the dangers of climate change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Folkloric Bears and Actual Ones: Sacred and Profane from the Bible to Contemporary Celebrities

The Stories of Hugh Glass: The Case of a Disappearing and Reappearing Dangerous Bear

Out of Hibernation and Into Children's Literature

Grizzly Adams: Bears He Tamed, Those He Displayed, and Those Responsible for His Death

Captive Bears and Their Captors as Workers

Teddy Bear: Another One Quickly Disappears and Frequently Reappears

Off the Poster and Out of the Zoo: Smokey Bear Goes Everywhere

Out of the Closet: Bears in the Gay World

Timothy Treadwell and Marian Engel: Bears, Humans, and Dangerous Eroticism

Precarity and Polar Bears

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Horowitz, Daniel, 1938- Bear with me.

ISBN:

9781478061045

1478061049

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.