Hollywood's frontier captives : cultural anxiety and the captivity plot in American film
- Title
- Hollywood's frontier captives : cultural anxiety and the captivity plot in American film / Barbara Mortimer.
- Published by
- New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
- Author
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- Description
- v, 184 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series statement
- Garland studies in American popular history and culture
- Uniform title
- Garland studies in American popular history and culture.
- Subject
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The Captivity Narrative Tradition and Hollywood Film -- Ch. 2. Resisting Rescue: The Problem of the Captive's Agency in The Searchers -- Ch. 3. The Captive's Return and the Limits of Community in The Unforgiven, Two Rode Together, and Comanche Station -- Ch. 4. Making a Name for Himself: The Captive as Adopted Son in A Man Called Horse and Little Big Man -- Ch. 5. The Captivity Plot and the Politics of Postmodernism in Taxi Driver -- Ch. 6. The Rescue Mission and the Recuperation of the Hero in the Vietnam War Film.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes filmography: p. 167-171.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-177) and index.