Gunfighter Nation

Gunfighter nation......Page 6 >$^G.□a......Page 7 BOSTON PUBLIC LlBl^RY......Page 9 Table of Contents......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 Regeneration Through Violence: The Language oj the Myth......Page 24 The Frontier Myth as a Theory of Development......Page 29 'Trogressives” and ''Populists*’......Page 33 1 The Winning of the West......Page 37 The Historian as Hunter......Page 43 The Winning of the West: A Progressive Myth of Origins......Page 48 Recovering the Frontier: Regeneration Through Imperialism......Page 55 The White City and the Wild West......Page 63 Mob, Tribe, and Regiment......Page 82 ''1008 Dead Niggers'’: The Logic of Massacre......Page 101 Mythologies of Resistance......Page 110 The Pinkerton Detective: Hawkeye Among the Communists......Page 121 The Outlaw/Detective: Heroic Style as Ideology......Page 125 The Significances of Dime-Novel Populism......Page 131 Aristocracy of Violence......Page 134 Recovering the Savage: Remington,......Page 140 London, Garland......Page 141 The Virginian (1902) and the Myth of the Vigilante......Page 147 Democracy or Civilization: Dixon’s The Clansman (1904)......Page 158 The Political Uses oj Symbolic Violence......Page 163 From the Open Range to the Mean Streets......Page 167 Zane Grey: The Formula Western, 1911—1925......Page 181 The Virginian in Nighttown: Origins of the Hard-boiled Detective, 1910—1940......Page 186 PART III......Page 195 Cinematic Form and Mythographic Function: Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915)......Page 204 Icons of Authenticity: The Movie Star as Progressive Hero......Page 208 The Epic Western, 1923—1931......Page 216 The Studio System, the Depression, and the Eclipse of the Western, 1930—1938......Page 218 The Two-Gun Man of the Twenties: Gangster Films, 1931-1939......Page 223 The Worldscale Western, 'Wictorian Empire''......Page 227 Movies, 1935—1940......Page 228 “Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . . Westerns, 1931-1939......Page 233 The Western Is American History, 1939—1941......Page 238 The Renaissance of the Feature Western......Page 245 The Cult of the Outlaw......Page 251 The Apotheosis of the “B” Western: John Ford's Stagecoach (1939)......Page 260 Last Stands and Lost Patrols......Page 267 ’ ■ ‘ ’■-‘'■‘•intw'i......Page 293 PART......Page 294 Cult of the Indian: Devil’s Doorway and Broken Arrow (1950)......Page 309 57)-......Page 317 Killer Elite......Page 319 High Noon (1952): The Hero in Spite of Democracy......Page 328 A Good Man with a Gun: Shane (1953)......Page 333 The Gunfighter Mystique......Page 337 Imagining Third World Revolutions......Page 340 Coloring the Looking-Glass: Mexico as Mythic Space, 1912—1952......Page 346 The "Zapata Problem": The Strong Man Makes a Weak People......Page 352 The Man Who Knows Communists: The Heroic Style oj Covert Operations (1953—54)......Page 360 Fast Guns for '‘Zapata'*: The Counterinsurgency Scenario and Vera Cruz (1954)......Page 365 14......Page 371 Search and Rescue/ Search and Destroy: The Indian-Hater as Counterguerrilla......Page 387 The Magnificent Seven (1960) and the Counterinsurgency Paradox......Page 396 i:......Page 407 Conquering New Frontiers......Page 408 John Wayne Syndrome: The Cult of ''The Duke”......Page 426 Blockbuster Tactics: The Green Berets (1968) and the Big-Unit War......Page 433 Attrition......Page 443 Recovering the Mission: Mexico Westerns,......Page 463 1965-1968......Page 464 Cross-over Point......Page 477 The Demoralization of the Western: Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)......Page 488 Lunatic Semiology: The Demoralization of American Culture, 1969—1973......Page 505 Conclusion:......Page 513 The Crisis of Public Myth......Page 514 Back in the Saddle Again?: The Reagan Presidency and the Recrudescence of the Myth......Page 529 Imagining America......Page 538 List of Abbreviations......Page 543 Vf j&,.r,V 4 l......Page 546 Notes......Page 547 Notes to Chapter 4......Page 573 Notes to Chapter 5......Page 582 Notes to Chapter 6......Page 590 Notes to Chapter 7......Page 600 Notes to Chapter 8......Page 605 Notes to Chapter 9......Page 609 Notes to Chapter 10......Page 616 Notes to Chapter 11......Page 622 Notes to Chapter 12......Page 628 Notes to Chapter 13......Page 630 Notes to Chapter 14......Page 636 Notes to Chapter 15......Page 642 Notes to Chapter 16......Page 654 Notes to Chapter 17......Page 660 Notes to Conclusion......Page 666 764......Page 673 765......Page 675 Bibliography......Page 678 784......Page 704 [].......Page 731 33 - 6 -......Page 742 Selected Filmography......Page 759 Index......Page 773 834......Page 782 S35......Page 786 836......Page 787 S3 7......Page 791 8s8......Page 792