Our Country/Whose Country?: Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism

by Abel

The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' repressed past. Westerns in particular propose a remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what "American Progress" came to mean.

Initially, these films tracked settlers moving westward across the Appalachians, Great Plains, and Rockies. Their seizure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197744044
• ISBN13: 9780197744048
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages