Hollywood S Frontier Captives
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Hollywood S Frontier Captives
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Author : Barbara A. Mortimer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-24
Hollywood S Frontier Captives written by Barbara A. Mortimer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-24 with History categories.
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.
Americans Recaptured
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Author : Molly K. Varley
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-10-22
Americans Recaptured written by Molly K. Varley and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-22 with History categories.
It was on the frontier, where “civilized” men and women confronted the “wilderness,” that Europeans first became Americans—or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians. For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890–1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizens’ individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlers’ contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nation’s “soul.” Furthermore, in the act of memorializing white Indian captives—through statues, parks, and reissued narratives—small towns found a way of inscribing themselves into the national story. By drawing out the connections between actual captivity, captivity narratives, and the memorializing of white captives, Varley shows how Indian captivity became a means for Progressive Era Americans to look forward by looking back. Local boosters and cultural commentators used Indian captivity to define “Americanism” and to renew those frontier qualities deemed vital to the survival of the nation in the post-frontier world, such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, “manliness,” and patriotism. In Varley’s analysis of the Progressive Era mentality, contact between white captives and Indians represented a stage in the evolution of a new American people and affirmed the contemporary notion of America as a melting pot. Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time—with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy—Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.
The Captives Of Abb S Valley
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Author : James Moore Brown
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2019-05-22
The Captives Of Abb S Valley written by James Moore Brown and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-22 with History categories.
This is a true account of the 1786 murders of the Moore family of Virginia by Indians and the abduction of the survivors. This remarkable book, long suppressed because of the politically incorrect facts it contains about early frontier life and the interactions between white settlers and Indians, provides a dramatic insight into the sufferings of the early European pioneers in America. Indians regularly captured whites for use as slaves-although those were the lucky ones. The less fortunate were tortured and killed, often for sport. Written with a strong focus on Presbyterianism, the book's value lies in its dispassionate detailing of the everyday life and dangers for families on the frontier. Clothing, food, livestock, the scarcity of cutlery, the cruelty of the Indians and the treatment of their captives are drawn from the firsthand accounts of people interviewed by the author, a son of one of the captives.
The Girl Captives
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Author : Bessie Marchant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899*
The Girl Captives written by Bessie Marchant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899* with Families categories.
Hollywood And The Rise Of Physical Culture
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Author : Heather Addison
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-24
Hollywood And The Rise Of Physical Culture written by Heather Addison and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-24 with History categories.
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Frontier Captive
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Author : Joanne Burke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Frontier Captive written by Joanne Burke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Armed Forces categories.
Horrors Of Indian Captivity
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Horrors Of Indian Captivity written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
Hollywood Renaissance
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Author : Sam B. Girgus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-08-13
Hollywood Renaissance written by Sam B. Girgus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-13 with History categories.
A study of how films from the late 1930s to the early 60s portrayed the American ideal.
The Searchers
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Author : Glenn Frankel
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-02-19
The Searchers written by Glenn Frankel and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-19 with History categories.
New York Times Bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by: Parade The Guardian Kirkus Library Journal The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the New York Times calls "A vivid, revelatory account of John Ford's 1956 masterpiece." In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and in the 1950s to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, The Searchers, "The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest... and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!" directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.
Rape Revenge Films
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Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-03-29
Rape Revenge Films written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-29 with Performing Arts categories.
Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a phenomenon that--revitalized since #MeToo exploded in late 2017--is a filmmaking tradition with a history that transcends a contemporary context. Featuring both famous and unknown movies, controversial and widely celebrated filmmakers, as well as rape-revenge cinema from around the world, this revised edition demonstrates that diverse and often contradictory treatments of sexual violence exist simultaneously.