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Where the Tall Grass Grows
Identifying myths of the West and the ways in which they continue to shape our views.
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Wooded and Watery Landscapes: Evolving Hollywood Depictions of 'the Wilderness' and 'the Frontier'
Despite the change of cinematic trends, the genre's enduring fascination with forests and waters prompts an investigation into the intricate visual and narrative representations of these landscapes in Hollywood Westerns and their roles in reflecting and shaping the frontier myth and its associated ideologies. [...]the focus on wooded rivers and mountains is driven by the fact that “forested land” is a significant aspect of the multivalent term “wilderness,” a subjective concept that resists easy definition and is primarily defined by its opposition to civilization in Euro-American culture, as Roderick Frazier Nash elucidates in Wilderness and the American Mind (1–7). Perceptions of the Wilderness and American National Mythmaking With its bountiful resources and varied landscapes, the natural world of the American frontier has been recognized as a pivotal factor in shaping the nation's economy, politics, and culture. [...]driven by growing environmental consciousness in American society, new western historians have brought to the forefront the environmental destruction and degradation accompanying the economic development of the West, challenging the prevailing myth of the Euro-American conquest and taming of the wilderness. Beyond its role in physical and economic development, the wilderness evolved into a spiritual and symbolic reservoir.
Journal Article
First Cow
A skilled cook travelling with fur trappers in Oregon, connects with a Chinese immigrant. They start a successful business but rely on the covert participation of a prized milking cow.
Streaming Video
Landscape, Vitality, and Desire: Cross-Dressed Frontier Girls in Transitional-Era American Cinema
Cross-dressed frontier women allowed moving pictures to capitalize on cherished American frontier mythologies while offering new, uniquely cinematic attractions. These figures provided the spectacle of a triumphant white body navigating the American landscape, while fixing both the neurasthenic middle-class family and the sexual dilemma of the gender-imbalanced frontier.
Journal Article
Shakespeare in the Settlers' House
Examines the role of Shakespeare performances on the development of NZ identity, focusing on five specific instances of stagings of his works ranging from the mid-19th century to modern day. Indicates the paradox evinced by, on the one hand, the settler society's independent maturity as proven by its ability to stage Shakespeare satisfactorily and, on the other hand, its enduring tie to Britain which Shakespeare itself implies. Reflects particularly on the significance of the Don Selwyn 'Te Tangata Whai Rawa O Weniti (the Maori 'Merchant of Venice')' as a precursor of a genuine 'NZ Shakespeare'. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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