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Hollywood's Frontier Captives

Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film

By: Barbara A. Mortimer

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Hollywood's Frontier Captives

Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film

By: Barbara A. Mortimer

The captivity narrative, the earliest genre of American popular literature, continues to be of cultural significance in late 20th-century Hollywood. Many popular films of the last four decades incorporate the most common elements of the captivity narrative tradition, including a politically contested frontier setting and a plot involving innocent, family-oriented white Americans held captive by hostile, culturally alien natives. At the same time, these films offer something new to the narrative tradition: they focus on the captive who resists rescue and the challenge this resistance poses to American cultural self-confidence. By focusing on the lost captive, these films, beginning with The Searchers (1956), deal with questions about American identity raised by a white American's cultural and potentially political transformation. Films as diverse as Little Big Man, Taxi Driver, and The Deer Hunter adapted the captivity narrative's conventions to criticize aspects of contemporary American society and reject outworn models of male heroism; at the same time, however, they retained the genre's traditional assumption of white superiority and its fear of female sexuality. Bibliography. Index.

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196

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Routledge

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1317776747

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9781317776741

Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark

By: Barbara Fifer,Vicky Soderberg

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Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark

By: Barbara Fifer,Vicky Soderberg

This edition contains no advertising, and is stitch-bound. It covers the whole story of the expedition, beginning east of the Mississippi River as Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis planned, and Lewis trained and traveled. Then follows Lewis and Clark and company to the Pacific and back to St. Louis. Accessible history text combines with tourism information on following their path today, and maps combine both then and now.

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224

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Farcountry Press

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1560371889

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9781560371885

The Australia First Movement

By: Barbara Winter

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The Australia First Movement

By: Barbara Winter

‘Australia First’ is a good slogan that has been adopted by several quite different political ideologies. This book deals with the movement that began in a small way before 1914, developed slowly from about 1936, and came to an abrupt and inglorious end in March 1942. It grew out of the Victorian Socialist Party and the Rationalist Association At first it attracted literary figures such as Xavier Herbert, Eleanor Dark, Miles Franklin. When it became heavily political, there were among its members and associates three former Communist Party members and one Nazi Party member; some worked for the Labor Party, some for the United Australia Party (later Liberal Party), while there were strong links with the Social Credit Party. One was a paid agent of the Japanese. Some were connected with Theosophy, some with Odinism, and in Victoria most were Irish Catholics with links to Archbishop Mannix and Sinn Fein.

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304

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Interactive Publications

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1876819413

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9781876819415

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Hollywood's Frontier Captives

Hollywood's Frontier Captives

Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark

Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark

The Australia First Movement

The Australia First Movement

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