The HRI and Luther College at the University of Regina were pleased to co-present:

Mark Cronlund Anderson

(History, Luther College)

“Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film”

(Talk and Book Launch)

Date: Tuesday 30 October 2007

Time: 4:00 pm

Place: Luther College, University of Regina, LC 100

What is a Hollywood cowboy and why does he always seem hell bent on domination and violence? Worse, why do Americans like it? The frontier myth, America’s secular creation story, glorifies such behavior. Unhinged from empirical reality, the myth has served and arguably still serves as a means to champion aggressive and expansionist US foreign policy, Manifest Destiny, American colonialism. Hollywood film, the subject of this talk, has aided and abetted the process. This event celebrated the publication of Mark Cronlund Anderson‘s new book Cowboy Imperialism and American Film (Peter Lang, 2007).

Mark Cronlund Anderson is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies at Luther College, University of Regina. He has published three other books, including Pancho Villa’s Revolution by Headlines (2001), Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity (Selected Readings) (2004), and Interdisciplinarity and Cross-Cultural Works in North America (2005). He holds a PhD from the University of California.

He is presently writing two books: Many 9/11s, which argues that 9/11 was not unique and that such psycho-events in fact punctuate US history; and a co-authored study (with Dr. Carmen Robertson, Visual Arts), supported by SSHRC, titled Cut and Pasted Indians, that explores the ways in which Canada’s mainstream press has imagined Aboriginal peoples since Confederation.

This event was co-sponsored by Luther College at the University of Regina and the HRI.