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New York (State) --- -Politics and government --- -New York (State) --- Politics and government --- Revolution, 1775-1783 --- 1775-1865
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Borderlands --- Indians --- Régions frontalières --- Indiens --- History --- Land tenure. --- Histoire --- Terres --- America --- Amérique --- Colonization. --- Historical geography --- Colonisation --- Géographie historique --- Régions frontalières --- Amérique --- Géographie historique --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Land tenure --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Historical geography. --- History.
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Directed by George Stevens, then one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers, 'Shane' (1952) is one of the most revered and imitated of all westerns. Starring Alan Ladd as a mysterious drifter who protects a fledgling community from a predatory gang, 'Shane' is one of the definitive reimaginings of America's frontier mythology. This is, remarkably, the first substantial study of 'Shane'. In it, Edward Countryman and Evonne von Heussen-Countryman show, with reference to a wide range of historical and archival sources, how subtly the film treats some fundamental themes: family, the history of settlement and community in America, violence, and the culture of the gun.
Shane (Motion picture). --- Shane (Motion picture) --- Edward Countryman & Evonne von Heussen-Countryman --- filmklassiekers --- Shane --- Stevens George --- westerns --- 791.471 STEVENS --- English literature --- Film --- Motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Study and teaching --- Etude et enseignement --- film --- filmgeschiedenis
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Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead, the New World's holdings took their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited. These contested spaces throughout the western hemisphere were not unclaimed lands waiting to be conquered and populated but a single vast space, occupied by native communities and defined by the meeting, mingling, and clashing of peoples, creating societies unlike any that the world had seen before.Contested Spaces of Early America brings together some of the most distinguished historians in the field to view colonial America on the largest possible scale. Lavishly illustrated with maps, Native art, and color plates, the twelve chapters span the southern reaches of New Spain through Mexico and Navajo Country to the Dakotas and Upper Canada, and the early Indian civilizations to the ruins of the nineteenth-century West. At the heart of this volume is a search for a human geography of colonial relations: Contested Spaces of Early America aims to rid the historical landscape of imperial cores, frontier peripheries, and modern national borders to redefine the way scholars imagine colonial America.Contributors: Matthew Babcock, Ned Blackhawk, Chantal Cramaussel, Brian DeLay, Elizabeth Fenn, Allan Greer, Pekka Hämäläinen, Raúl José Mandrini, Cynthia Radding, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Alan Taylor, and Samuel Truett.
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Motion picture producers and directors --- Western films --- Western films --- Biography --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopedias --- History and criticism --- West (U.S.) --- Encyclopedias.
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Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of optimism and concern, patriotism and cynicism. What Dreams Were Made Of examines the performers who helped define American cinema in the 1940's, a decade of rapid and repeated upheaval for Hollywood and the United States. Through insightful discussions of key films as well as studio publicity and fan magazines, the essays in this collection analyze how these actors and actresses helped lift spirits during World War II, whether in service comedies, combat films, or escapist musicals. The contributors, all major writers on the stars and movies of this period, also explore how cultural shifts after the war forced many stars to adjust to new outlooks and attitudes, particularly in film noir. Together, they represented the hopes and fears of a nation during turbulent times, enacting on the silver screen the dreams of millions of moviegoers.
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