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- catalog abstract "Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing.".
- catalog contributor b11573949.
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) In literature.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-828) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the significance of the frontier myth in American history -- pt. 1. The mythology of progressivism, 1880-1902 -- The winning of the West: Theodore Roosevelt's frontier thesis, 1880-1900 -- The White City and the Wild West: Buffalo Bill and the mythic space of American history, 1880-1917 -- Mob, tribe, and regiment: modernization as militarization, 1883-1902 -- pt. 2. Populists and progressives: literacy myth and idealogical style, 1872-1940 -- Mythologies of resistance: outlaws, detectives, and dime-novel populism, 1873-1903 -- Aristocracy of violence: virility, vigilante politics, and red-blooded fiction, 1895-1910 -- From the open range to the mean streets: myth and formula fiction, 1910-1940 -- pt. 3. Colonizing a mythic landscape: movie Westerns, 1903-1948 -- Formulas on film: myth and genre in the silent movie, 1903-1926 -- The studio system, the Depression, and the eclipse of the Western, 1930-1938 -- The Western is American history, 1939-1941 -- Last stands and lost patrols: the Western and the war film, 1940-1948 --".
- catalog description "pt. 4. Democracy and force: the Western and the Cold War, 1946-1960 -- Studies in red and white: calvary, Indians and Cold War ideology, 1946-1954 -- Killer elite: the cult of the gunfighter, 1950-1953 -- Imagining Third World revolutions: the "Zapata problem" and the counterinsurgency scenario, 1952-1954 -- Gunfighters and Green Berets: imagining the counterinsurgency warrior, 1956-1960 -- pt. 5. Gunfighter nation: myth, ideology, and violence on the New Frontier, 1960-1970 -- Conquering New Frontiers: John Kennedy, John Wayne, and the myth of heroic leadership, 1960-1968 -- Attrition: the big unit war, the riots, and the counterinsurgency Western, 1965-1968 -- Cross-over point: the Mylai massacre, the Wild Bunch, and the demoralization of America, 1969-1972 -- Conclusion: the crisis of public myth.".
- catalog extent "xii, 850 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0806130318 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780806130316 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) In literature.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "978 22".
- catalog subject "E169.12 .S57 1998".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life United States.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Frontier thesis.".
- catalog subject "Frontier. gtt".
- catalog subject "Mythevorming. gtt".
- catalog subject "Politieke besluitvorming. gtt".
- catalog subject "Populaire cultuur. gtt".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Western films Political aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the significance of the frontier myth in American history -- pt. 1. The mythology of progressivism, 1880-1902 -- The winning of the West: Theodore Roosevelt's frontier thesis, 1880-1900 -- The White City and the Wild West: Buffalo Bill and the mythic space of American history, 1880-1917 -- Mob, tribe, and regiment: modernization as militarization, 1883-1902 -- pt. 2. Populists and progressives: literacy myth and idealogical style, 1872-1940 -- Mythologies of resistance: outlaws, detectives, and dime-novel populism, 1873-1903 -- Aristocracy of violence: virility, vigilante politics, and red-blooded fiction, 1895-1910 -- From the open range to the mean streets: myth and formula fiction, 1910-1940 -- pt. 3. Colonizing a mythic landscape: movie Westerns, 1903-1948 -- Formulas on film: myth and genre in the silent movie, 1903-1926 -- The studio system, the Depression, and the eclipse of the Western, 1930-1938 -- The Western is American history, 1939-1941 -- Last stands and lost patrols: the Western and the war film, 1940-1948 --".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 4. Democracy and force: the Western and the Cold War, 1946-1960 -- Studies in red and white: calvary, Indians and Cold War ideology, 1946-1954 -- Killer elite: the cult of the gunfighter, 1950-1953 -- Imagining Third World revolutions: the "Zapata problem" and the counterinsurgency scenario, 1952-1954 -- Gunfighters and Green Berets: imagining the counterinsurgency warrior, 1956-1960 -- pt. 5. Gunfighter nation: myth, ideology, and violence on the New Frontier, 1960-1970 -- Conquering New Frontiers: John Kennedy, John Wayne, and the myth of heroic leadership, 1960-1968 -- Attrition: the big unit war, the riots, and the counterinsurgency Western, 1965-1968 -- Cross-over point: the Mylai massacre, the Wild Bunch, and the demoralization of America, 1969-1972 -- Conclusion: the crisis of public myth.".
- catalog title "Gunfighter nation : the myth of the frontier in twentieth-century America / Richard Slotkin.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".