Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood FilmPeter Lang, 2007 - 231 pages 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, The Ballad of Little Joe to 25th Hour, posit intriguing revisionist frontier tales. |
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... Power and Progress : American National Identity , the War of 1898 , and the Rise of American Imperialism ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univer- sity Press , 2006 ) . 10. Ramón Eduardo Ruíz , Cuba : The Making of a Revolution ( Amherst ...
... Power and Progress : American National Identity , the War of 1898 , and the Rise of American Imperialism ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univer- sity Press , 2006 ) . 10. Ramón Eduardo Ruíz , Cuba : The Making of a Revolution ( Amherst ...
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Whos Your Daddy | 11 |
Getting Naked | 31 |
Being Not It And Other Teleological Silliness | 55 |
Copyright | |
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