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Mark Cronlund Anderson

Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8204-9545-3
  • EAN: 9780820495453
  • Produktnummer: 19045388
  • Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 231 S.
  • Masse: H15.5 cm x B22.8 cm x D1.6 cm 338 g
  • Abbildungen: fig.
  • Gewicht: 338
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


The Author: Mark Cronlund Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Regina and holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Riverside. He is the author/co-editor of Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines (2000), Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings (Peter Lang, 2004), and Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Narratives in North America (Peter Lang, 2005). His next book explores the ways in which Canada's mainstream press has imagined Indigenous peoples since the country was confederated in 1867.

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