Historical Study of Evolution of Myths and Symbolic Language in Western Movies and Relationship to Social History
FAIN: FB-11604-73
Richard S. Slotkin
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT 06459-3208)
To study the Western movie as a vehicle for certain cultural myths, which have origins in earlier periods of American history, and function in the present as guides to perception of social reality and social of political behavior.