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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... Turner would have it , begets and reflects an entirely benign and uplifting process . Turnerian syrup ( " To the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics " ) represents a stri- dently positive affirmation of ...
... Turner would have it , begets and reflects an entirely benign and uplifting process . Turnerian syrup ( " To the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics " ) represents a stri- dently positive affirmation of ...
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... Turnerian of the Indian . He scavenges buffalo marrow from a wolf kill , fashions deadly weap- ons by his own hands ... Turner's assertion that this experience inevitably produces Joseph Donnelly - like characters or Kubrick's darkened ...
... Turnerian of the Indian . He scavenges buffalo marrow from a wolf kill , fashions deadly weap- ons by his own hands ... Turner's assertion that this experience inevitably produces Joseph Donnelly - like characters or Kubrick's darkened ...
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... Turnerian , al- beit black , phallus , but little more . Blazing Saddle Sores Another difficulty with the film stems from its hackneyed frontier western love affair with violence as a legitimate means of settling dis- putes . While it ...
... Turnerian , al- beit black , phallus , but little more . Blazing Saddle Sores Another difficulty with the film stems from its hackneyed frontier western love affair with violence as a legitimate means of settling dis- putes . While it ...
Contents
Whos Your Daddy | 11 |
Getting Naked | 31 |
Being Not It And Other Teleological Silliness | 55 |
Copyright | |
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