Description
Beginning with Huckleberry Finn and ending with The Walking Dead, Cantor also uncovers the link between the American dream and frontier life. In imaginative variants of a Wild West setting, popular culture has served up disturbing -- and yet strangely compelling -- images of what happens when people move beyond the borders of law and order. Cantor demonstrates that, at its best, popular culture raises thoughtful questions about the validity and viability of the American dream, thus deepening our understanding of America itself.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813177304
Author Paul A. Cantor
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint The University Press of Kentucky
Publisher The University Press of Kentucky