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The American Success Myth on Film (Hardcover, New)
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The American Success Myth on Film (Hardcover, New)
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Contemporary cultural narratives, like ancient myths, speak to our
common aspirations, anxieties, and perplexities. These ritually
retold stories help to create a sense of communal identity. The
American Success Myth on Film considers how movies, as bearers of
modern myths, have illuminated - if not resolved - the ideological
contradictions at the heart of the American idea of success. In
examining the enduring appeal that the success myth exerts on our
collective imagination, it highlights the central role that films
have played in the ongoing cultural conversation about success and
work in America. Analyses of a range of movies from the late 1920s
to the present are grounded in the history of rags-to-riches tales
and in a consideration of the social functions of myth. This
expansive analysis of the American success myth exposes the
insistent, but sometimes implicit, attitudes toward success that
infuse our cultural narratives and, not incidentally, underlie our
national self-image, our public discourse, and our personal ideals.
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