Drača, Vinko.
(2015).
Od Davyja Crocketta do Bonnie & Clyde: konstrukcija američke slike o sebi u modernoj pučkoj i popularnoj kulturi.
Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of History.
[mentor Blažević, Zrinka].
Abstract
In this thesis, I will attempt to analyse a specific set of autostereotypes that came to pass in the folklore and popular culture of 19-century United States of America. That set of autostereotypes relate to a character of frontier hero. Frontier hero was classical hero oft he early 19-century folklore and he was attributed with a set of characteristics that have reflected specific set of moral values typical for the early notions of American Self. This form of autosteretypisation has had a significant influence on American popular politics, especially at the grass-roots aspects of westward expansion and the accompanying set of beliefs that will become known as Manifest Destiny. In the late 19th century the image of the frontier hero will become distorted in the mirror of social and economic tensions of The Gilded Age and it will be transformed into the popular culture icon of the western gunslinger and outlaw. Those two images have helped form the popular idea of American nationhood that was more rooted in anarcho-primitivist conceptions of individualism and democracy than the strictly rationalist and capitalist ideas oft he mainstream political Americanism.
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