GGR360H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marlboro Man, Landscape Photography, Miwok

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13 Mar 2017
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Ggr360 lecture #9: memory and militarization in the us west, lecture outline, 1. Ghost towns and westerns: the making of the mythic. West: is a geographic region, but it is also a geographic myth, most strongly imagined view of the usa, the marlboro man, 1954-1999. Inquire into how these myths are made. Heroic: ghost towns as landscapes of the past, set up to be interpreted in the present: goldfield, arizona, the wes of the western, and beyond: hollywood visits. Made in the 20th century but set in the 19th century. Allows viewers to make the links between the western stories and the settings. A lot of visitors don"t feel out of place in a place like bodie because of movies they feel like they are experiencing something authentically western. Hollywood, but it actually started in the east: new jersey, nyc, moves west because of the popularity of. Westerns: la becomes a very useful stand-in for the.

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