The Perpetuation of Myth
Ideology in Bone Tomahawk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21408022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Carter (0000-0001-5425-8160, Manchester Metropolitan University), Matt Carter (0000-0003-1653-1271, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-35 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-2305 • E-ISSN: 2196-4726 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/zaa-2020-0004 |
| OpenAlex | W3012388773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
The contemporary Western Bone Tomahawk is in the tradition of the settler-versus-Indian stories from the genre’s ‘classical’ period. Its story is informed by one of white America’s oldest and most paranoiac of racist-psychosexual myths: the captivity narrative. This article reads Bone Tomahawk ’s figuration of the racial anxieties that inhere within nineteenth-century settler-colonial culture in the context of post-9/11 America. It also considers that the film’s imbrication of Horror film conventions into its essential Western framework amplifies its allegorical representation of contemporary America’s cultural and political-ideological mindset. As well, the use of Horror conventions amplifies the racial anxieties generated by its use of a mythic binary construct of an adversarial relationship between whites and ‘Indians.’ To a lesser extent, the article suggests that the film also embodies certain uncontained ideological contradictions that, though undeveloped, could be said to contest its ideological coherence
Aesthetics · Art · CONTEST · Context (archaeology) · Ideology · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Modern American Literature Studies
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |