Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century AmericaUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1998 - 850 pages The concluding volume of Richard Slotkin's highly acclaimed trilogy draws on a wide range of sources to examine the pervasive influence of Wild West myths on American culture and politics. |
Table des matières
The Significance of the Frontier Myth in | 1 |
The Mythology of Progressivism 18801902 | 27 |
Sources and Premises The Historian as Hunter The Winning | 51 |
Buffalo Bill and | 63 |
Frontier and the Sanctification of Imperialism | 79 |
Modernization | 88 |
Outlaws Detectives | 125 |
Virility Vigilante Politics | 156 |
1950 | 366 |
The Cult of the Gunfighter 19501953 | 379 |
The Zapata | 405 |
Scenario and Vera Cruz 1954 | 433 |
Imagining | 441 |
Mystique and the Origin of Special Forces Search and RescueSearch | 474 |
Gunfighter Nation Myth Ideology | 487 |
Watts Newark Detroit 19651967 Exceptional | 549 |
Myth | 194 |
Origins of the Hardboiled Detective 19101940 | 217 |
Colonizing a Mythic Landscape | 229 |
The Studio System the Depression and the Eclipse | 255 |
The Studio as GenreMachine 19301938 The TwoGun Man | 271 |
The Western Is American History 19391941 | 278 |
The Western and | 313 |
Democracy and Force The Western | 345 |
The Mylai Massacre The Wild Bunch | 578 |
The Crisis of Public Myth | 624 |
Myth and Genre After the Western Back in the Saddle | 643 |
Imagining America | 654 |
Notes | 663 |
| 767 | |
| 829 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century America Richard Slotkin Affichage d'extraits - 1993 |
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century ..., Volume 2 Richard Slotkin Affichage d'extraits - 1992 |
Gunfighter Nation: The Frontier Myth in 20th Century America Richard Slotkin Aucun aperçu disponible - 1992 |
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