Our Country/whose Country? - Early Westerns and Travel Films As Stories of Settler Colonialism

This book offers an original analysis of early westerns and travel pictures through the lens of settler colonialism, exploring their remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion and how they revealed a profound transformation in American culture and the vision of "American Progress."

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: "Wild West" Subjects to 1910


• Touring the West 1


• Chapter 2: Single-Reel Westerns, 1910-1913


• Touring the West 2


• Chapter 3: Multiple-Reel Westerns, 1912-1914


• Touring the West 3


• Chapter 4: William S. Hart, "The Silent Man"


• Touring the West 4


• Chapter 5: Harry Carey, Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks




• Afterword


• Bibliography


• Endnotes


• Index

About the author

Richard Abel is Emeritus Professor of International Cinema and Media at the University of Michigan. The most recent of his dozen books is Movie Mavens: US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914-1923 (2021). His essays have appeared in scores of journals and been translated into five languages. He received the 2014 SCMS Distinguished Career Achievement Award and the 2017 Jean Mitry Award.

Summary

This book offers an original analysis of early westerns and travel pictures through the lens of settler colonialism, exploring their remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion and how they revealed a profound transformation in American culture and the vision of "American Progress."

Product details

• Authors: Abel, Richard Abel, Richard (Emeritus Professor of International Abel, Abel Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2023
• EAN: 9780197744048
• ISBN: 978-0-19-774404-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, History of the Americas, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism