£144.99

Routledge Hollywood's Frontier Captives: Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)

Price data last checked 18 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£145 today · usual range £128–£147 · best ever £128

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 73 days • 73 data points (No recent data available)

Historical
Generating forecast...
£146.69 £126.20 £130.67 £135.14 £139.61 £144.08 £148.55 23 February 2026 13 March 2026 31 March 2026 18 April 2026 06 May 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 73 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
25 days 19 days · current 29 days 0 7 15 22 29 £128 £145 £147 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £147 (29 days, 39.7%)

Price range: £128 - £147

Price levels: 3 different prices over 73 days

Description

The captivity narrative, the earliest genre of American popular literature, continues to be of cultural significance in late 20th-century Hollywood. Many popular films of the last four decades incorporate the most common elements of the captivity narrative tradition, including a politically contested frontier setting and a plot involving innocent, family-oriented white Americans held captive by hostile, culturally alien natives. At the same time, these films offer something new to the narrative tradition: they focus on the captive who resists rescue and the challenge this resistance poses to American cultural self-confidence. By focusing on the lost captive, these films, beginning with The Searchers (1956), deal with questions about American identity raised by a white American's cultural and potentially political transformation. Films as diverse as Little Big Man, Taxi Driver, and The Deer Hunter adapted the captivity narrative's conventions to criticize aspects of contemporary American society and reject outworn models of male heroism; at the same time, however, they retained the genre's traditional assumption of white superiority and its fear of female sexuality. Bibliography. Index.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
01 January 2000
Listed Since
04 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Captivity Literature and the Environment Book
95% match

Routledge Captivity Literature and the Environment Book

Routledge

£121.84 07 May 2026
Who Controls the Hunt?: First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939 (Nature | History | Society)
95% match

Who Controls the Hunt?: First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939 (Nature | History | Society)

UBC Press

£72.00 05 Mar 2026
Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
94% match

Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940

University of Chicago Press

£63.49 26 Apr 2026
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series)
94% match

Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series)

University of Washington Press

£88.00 06 May 2026
Steve McQueen, The Last Reel: The Making of Tom Horn and The Hunter
94% match

Steve McQueen, The Last Reel: The Making of Tom Horn and The Hunter

£82.50 08 Feb 2026
Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs Vinyl Record
94% match

Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs Vinyl Record

NOT NOW

£16.85 01 May 2026
The Leatherstocking Tales: A Library of America Boxed Set
94% match

The Leatherstocking Tales: A Library of America Boxed Set

Library of America

£51.97 11 May 2026
Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures
94% match

Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures

Aperture

£31.66 11 May 2026
Routledge The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Stegner
94% match

Routledge The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Stegner

Routledge

£141.05 07 May 2026
Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western
94% match

Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western

Cornell University Press

£104.00 09 Mar 2026
Outsider Research: How White Writers 'Explore' Native Issues, Knowledge, and Experiences
94% match

Outsider Research: How White Writers 'Explore' Native Issues, Knowledge, and Experiences

Academica Press

£88.50 12 May 2026
Open Range
94% match

Open Range

UNIVERSAL

£7.52 18 Mar 2026
Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World
94% match

Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World

Continuum

£22.79 29 Apr 2026
The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures (Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives)
94% match

The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures (Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives)

Routledge

£105.05 02 Mar 2026
What Lies Beneath: California Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards
94% match

What Lies Beneath: California Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards

Two Dot Books

£16.53 13 Mar 2026
Firehair Collection: Collection of the Firehair Stories From Rangers Comics
94% match

Firehair Collection: Collection of the Firehair Stories From Rangers Comics

£75.39 10 Feb 2026
A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land
94% match

A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land

Routledge

£77.06 26 Apr 2026
Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa: 61 (Studies in Imperialism)
94% match

Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa: 61 (Studies in Imperialism)

Manchester University Press

£40.82 20 Feb 2026
Mythologia Americana - Willa Cather's Nebraska novels and the myth of the frontier
94% match

Mythologia Americana - Willa Cather's Nebraska novels and the myth of the frontier

GRIN Verlag

£55.90 22 Feb 2026
Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre (Postwestern Horizons)
94% match

Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre (Postwestern Horizons)

University of Nebraska Press

£79.00 01 Mar 2026
Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television Since 1990
94% match

Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television Since 1990

Scarecrow Press

£75.84 10 Mar 2026
Wilderness and the Changing American West
94% match

Wilderness and the Changing American West

Wiley

£148.69 16 Apr 2026
The Films of Delmer Daves: Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
94% match

The Films of Delmer Daves: Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

University Press of Mississippi

£88.00 06 Mar 2026
Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr
94% match

Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr

University of Washington Press

£52.90 18 Apr 2026