1st Edition
Hollywood's Frontier Captives Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film
By Barbara A. Mortimer
Copyright 2000
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1: The Captivity Narrative Tradition and Hollywood Film, Chapter 2: Resisting Rescue: The Problem of the Captive's Agency in The Searchers, Chapter 3: The Captive's Return and the Limits of Community in The Unforgiven, Two Rode Together, and Comanche Station, Chapter 4: Making a Name for Himself: The Captive as Adopted Son in A Man Called Horse and Little Big Man, Chapter 5: The Captivity Plot and the Politics of Postmodernism in Taxi Driver, Chapter 6: The Rescue Mission and the Recuperation of the Hero in the Vietnam War Film, Conclusion, Filmography, Works Cited, Index
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Barbara A. Mortimer
