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Journal Article
Wooded and Watery Landscapes: Evolving Hollywood Depictions of 'the Wilderness' and 'the Frontier'
2024
Overview
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.
