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1	Stanley Kubrick and the American Myth Thompson, Andrew William January 2011 (has links) Thesis advisor: John Michalczyk / Stanley Kubrick explored and subverted the concept of American Myth throughout his filmography. American Myth may include the notion of social mobility (the American Dream), the archetypal gunslinger of the American West, the righteousness of a democratic system, a belief in social egalitarianism, and explicit foreign policies such as the Monroe Doctrine and the idea of Manifest Destiny. Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is an indictment of modern war and the commoditization of human lives. Dr. Strangelove demonstrates a uniquely American obsession with technology, proving innovation is not always progress. Finally, with Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick shows Vietnam has supplanted the West as America’s frontier, complete with gunplay between cowboys and native inhabitants. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: Film Studies. Stanley Kubrick Paths of Glory Dr. Strangelove Full Metal Jacket American Myth Cold War
2	Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian Hagan, Matthew T. 14 February 2012 (has links) In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the character of the kid and the novel's narrator and the ironies represented in the language and characterization of Judge Holden reveal McCarthy's critique by pointing toward the violence inherent in the language of myth. Along with this discussion of myth and ideology, I also analyze how the figuring of violence as sublime in the novel gets coupled with moments where characters exhibit either an unconscious desire for language or a marked absence of language. The significance of these moments, I contend, extends McCarthy's critique of the American mythos by undermining the Western genre's trope of the stoic hero while also exposing the ways in which the novel draws together the nature of language and the nature of violence. Blood Meridian thus serves not as a libratory revisionist critique that seeks to re-write the American mythos but as a much darker meditation on the ubiquity of violence—a violence that manifests itself all too often in textual form. / Graduation date: 2012 Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian violence language American myth Violence in literature
3	An American Tale: Incarnations of the Wizard of Oz and the Negotiation of Identity, Race, and Gender, in Popular Culture Orshan, Carly A 13 July 2012 (has links) The purpose of this study is to address the way in which several quite varied and often commodified representations of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) express and reproduce shifting notions of national identity within American culture across the twentieth century and at the beginning of our own. This thesis pursues the question of national identity that the American myth perpetuates throughout the twentieth century and examines the shift in citizenship through representations found in popular culture’s re-writings of the Wizard of Oz tale. This thesis evaluates both original and contemporary adaptations of the Oz story and their deconstruction for sociohistorical representations of racial, gendered, class, and national identity. I argue, that the numerous historical and ideological comparisons from the Oz tale reflect our own world in our discussions of identity, race, class, and gender and have become significant reflections of our own imaginations and national identity. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz Wicked Evil Good American Myth National Identity Race Gender Class Popular Culture American Culture Terrorism Other Nationalism Reproduction Commodification Deconstruction Historical Ideological
4	Массовое искусство и национальный миф: проблема взаимовлияния (на материале кинематографа США) : магистерская диссертация / Popular art and national myth: problem of interaction (movies by USA as an example) Gudova, Iu., Гудова, Ю. В. January 2014 (has links) MA paper is devoted to the researching of interaction between national myths and popular arts in American movies. The philosophical Ideas of G. Bodriyar, M. Kastels, E. Said, A. Kostina, K. Razlogov, and E. Shapinsky are in the basic of methodology. And anthropological ideas of Levi-Strouss, Ealiade, Meletinsky and Zhuladze are in the methodological foundation too. The paper consists from three parts. The specialty of contemporary cultural and social situation is analyzed in the first part of paper. The conceptual approaches to the definition of interaction between national identity and popular art are recovered in the second part. The third part of the paper is rewired the content and function of American’s myths in the American popular movies. The author gives conclusion that popular art represents national myths and therefore national identity is constructed by popular art. / Магистерская диссертация сосредоточена на взаимовлиянии национального мифа и массового искусства на примере кинематографа США. В качестве методологии исследования используется философско-культурологическая методология, представленная идеями Ж. Бодрийяра, М. Кастельса, А.В. Костиной, К.Э. Разлогова, Е.Н. Шапинской, Э. Саида, и других; культурно-антропологическая методология, выработанная К. Леви-Стросом, Е.М. Мелетинским, М. Элиаде, А. Цуладзе и другими. Работа состоит из трех глав. В первой главе рассматривается характеристика современной социокультурной ситуации, в которой существует массовое искусство. Во второй главе анализируются концептуальные походы к определению механизма взаимовлияния национальной идентичности и искусства. В третьей главе исследуется содержание американских национальных мифов и то, как они функционируют в американском массовом кино. В конце работы делается вывод, что массовое искусство репрезентирует национальные мифы и тем самым конструирует национальную идентичность. MASTER'S THESIS GLOBAL MASS CULTURE POPULAR ART REPRESENTATION ESSENCE APPROACH ANTI-ESSENCE APPROACH CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY APPROACH MYTH POLITICAL MYTH NATIONAL MYTH NATIONAL IDENTITY USA’S MOVIES AMERICAN MYTH “AMERICAN DREAM” EDWARD SAID CULTURAL IMPERIALISM AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ORIENTALISM “SIMPSONS” “SOUTH PARK” МАССОВОЕ ИСКУССТВО РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ МИФ НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ МИФ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ МИФ КИНЕМАТОГРАФ США АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ МИФ «АМЕРИКАНСКАЯ МЕЧТА» ЭДВАРД САИД ОРИЕНТАЛИЗМ «СИМПСОНЫ» «ЮЖНЫЙ ПАРК»

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