A Literary Investigation of American Popular Culture

FAIN: RO-10923-68

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Philip Durham (Project Director: June 1968 to present)

To continue and encourage investigations of the contributions of "popular" literature to the creation and maintenance of important American myths, images and self-images. To continue and possibly complete investigations into the origins, development and exploitation of the "Western" as a literary genre, a myth and cultural form.