Literature/Film Quarterly, January 1st, 2003
In his 1972 comments on the Hollywood Western, Tom Engelhardt notes that, regardless of ethnic identity or national origin, movie audiences are meant to identify with white frontiersmen and settlers clustering in the ever-present and vulnerable circle of wagons or fort and to fear those darker beings, who come, "in the enveloping darkness, on the peripheries of human existence, at dawn or dusk, hooting and screeching, from nowhere like maggots, swarming, naked, painted, burning and killing for no reason, like animals. . ." (480). As Engelhardt further notes, this representation of Indians as t...
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