Our country/whose country? : early Westerns and travel films as stories of settler colonialism /
"The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel films as re-enactments of this country's repressed past. The films stage a remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what “American Progres...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel films as re-enactments of this country's repressed past. The films stage a remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what “American Progress” came to mean in three successive phases. The crucial shift for westerns occurred between the second and third phases, coinciding with the outbreak of the Great War. Two interconnected pathways structure this book. The primary path links five chapters devoted to early westerns. The second pathway links four “sidebars” that examine early travel films within the same conceptual frame and often form close links with westerns. Overall, the book aims to prod readers to confront the ideological foundations of “our” national cinema and to find new ways to argue for the incomparable significance of early westerns and travel films in American history. It also may provoke a teachable moment to answer this question: Who was and who still may be either included or excluded in the term our country?"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197744086 0197744087 9780197744062 0197744060 0197744079 9780197744079 |