Our Country/Whose Country?: Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism

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The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' repressed past. Westerns in particular propose a remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what "American Progress" came to mean.

Initially, these films tracked settlers moving westward across the Appalachians, Great Plains, and Rockies. Their seizure...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0197744044

ISBN13:9780197744048

Release Date:November 2023

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:256 Pages

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Our Country/Whose Country?: Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism

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