Hollywood's Frontier Captives
Subtitle: Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780815331162
Subjects: American studies; Film theory & criticism; Popular culture; Special Subjects In Motion Pictures; Performing Arts; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Popular Culture - General; History / General; Film & Video - General; Captivity in motion pictures
First sentence: Captivity narratives-tales of white settlers held captive by American Indians-are among the earliest and most popular literature published in North America.