Name: buffalo bill´s wild west,celebrity, memory, and popular history
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Author: Kasson, Joy S.
ISBN: 9780809032440

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buffalo bill´s wild west,celebrity, memory, and popular history

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joy S. Kasson

Publisher

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Year

2001

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.49 kg.

ISBN

0809032449

ISBN13

9780809032440

Synopsis "buffalo bill´s wild west,celebrity, memory, and popular history"

Buffalo Bill's Wild West presents a fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainmentCanada, and Europe. Crowds cheered as cowboys and Indians--and Annie Oakley!--galloped past on spirited horses, sharpshooters exploded glass balls tossed high in the air, and cavalry troops arrived just in time to save a stagecoach from Indian attack. Vivid posters on billboards everywhere made William Cody, the show's originator and star, a world-renowned figure. Joy S. Kasson's important new book traces Cody's rise from scout to international celebrity, and shows how his image was shaped. Publicity stressed his show's authenticity yet audiences thrilled to its melodrama; fact and fiction converged in a performance that instantly became part of the American tradition. But how, precisely, did that come about? How, for example, did Cody use his audience's memories of the Civil War and the Indian wars? He boasted that his show included participants in the recent conflicts it presented theatrically, yet he also claimed it evoked memories of America's bygone greatness. Kasson's shrewd, engaging study--richly illustrated--in exploring the disappearing boundary between entertainment and public events in American culture, shows us just how we came to imagine our memories.

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