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| Genre/Form: | Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | James Fenimore Cooper; James Fenimore Cooper; James Fenimore Cooper; James Fenimore Cooper; James Fenimore Cooper; James Fenimore Cooper |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin Barker; Roger Sabin |
| ISBN: | 0878058583 9780878058587 0878058591 9780878058594 |
| OCLC Number: | 33246079 |
| Description: | x, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Mohican myth and the American dream -- Cooper's book -- Becoming a classic -- Movie Mohicans, 1909-1936 -- Movie Mohicans, 1947-1992 -- The television and cartoon versions -- Comic books: The Hidden tradition -- In the matter of the Mohicans. |
| Series Title: | Studies in popular culture (Jackson, Miss.) |
| Responsibility: | Martin Barker and Roger Sabin. |
Abstract:
But they have become familiar icons identified with the colonizing of the northeastern frontier and with the creation of "America." This ground-breaking and entertaining study focuses on the making and the remaking of media versions of Cooper's popular book. It shows that each new rendering extends to its audience a dynamic image of the American myth.
Yet along with the appeal of frontier adventure these media adaptations bear the weight of powerful meanings. Each new version addresses these meanings differently and raises questions about wilderness and frontier, about western expansion, about the relationships between men and women, about the association of whites with "Indians.".
Why does this book that everyone knows but that few have read continue to be perennially attractive for the media? In answer to this question, this study throws a new light on the idea of frontier and on the meaning of the American Dream.
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