Our Country/Whose Country? by Richard Abel (Paperback Book)

Name: Our Country/Whose Country? by Richard Abel (Paperback Book)
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc

Oxford University Press Inc

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 of \""empty land\"" provoked continual resistance from Indigenous peoples and Mexicans; \""pioneers\"" suffered extreme hardships, but heroic male figures usually scattered or wiped out those \""aliens.\"" Some films indulged in nostalgic empathy for the Indian as a \""Vanishing American.\"" In the early 1910s, westerns became increasingly popular. In Indian pictures,\n\nOur Country/Whose Country?\nEarly Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery us;