In the American psyche, the "Wild West" is a mythic-historical
place where our nation's values and ideologies were formed. In this
violent and uncertain world, the cowboy is the ultimate hero,
fighting the bad guys, forging notions of manhood, and delineating
what constitutes honor as he works to build civilization out of
wilderness. Tales from this mythical place are best known from that
most American of media: film. In the Greco-Roman societies that
form the foundation of Western civilization, similar narratives
were presented in what for them was the most characteristic, and
indeed most filmic, genre: epic. Like Western film, the epics of
Homer and Virgil focus on the mythic-historical past and its
warriors who worked to establish the ideological framework of their
respective civilizations. Through a close reading of films like
High Noon and Shane, this book examines the surprising connections
between these seemingly disparate yet closely related genres,
shedding light on both in the process.
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