American dreamtime: a cultural analysis of popular movies, and their implications for a science of humanity
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| adam_text | AMERICAN DREAMTIME
A Cultural Analysis of Popular Movies,
and Their Implications for a
Science of Humanity
Lee Drummond
LlTTLEFIELD ADAMS BOOKS
Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter
1 Introduction 1
Beginning at the Beginning 1
An Anthropologist Goes to the Movies 2
Cultural Anthropology and the Movies 6
Which Movies? 11
An Anthropologist Goes to the Movies, Take 2 18
2 The Primacy of Myth 23
What Is Myth? 23
The Nature of Myth 27
The Foundations of a Cultural Analysis of Myth 29
A Semiotic Approach to Modern Culture:
Myth Today, Totemism Today 36
Myth and Language 44
3 A Theory of Culture as Semiospace 51
Before and Beyond Language: Cultural Anthropology,
Quantum Mechanics, and Cosmology 51
Metaphor, Quality Space, and Semiospace 56
Dimensionality in Nature and Culture 59
Processual Analysis and Cultural Dimensionality:
Liminality, Social Drama, and Social Field 72
Intersystem and Continuum 76
Cultural Generativity 88
The Semiotic Dimensions of Culture 96
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4 The Story of Bond 127
James Bond: An American Myth? 127
How to Do — and Not to Do—Cultural Analysis:
The Novel-Bond and the Movie-Bond 130
Gadgets and Gladiators: The Master of Machines 137
Low Brows and High Stakes:
Bond Movies in a World of Consumer Capitalism 148
Folklore Past:
James Bond, Wild Bill Hickok, and John Henry 153
Folklore Present:
Secret Agents, Football Players, and Rock Stars 160
The Story of America 167
5 Metaphors Be with You: A Cultural Analysis of Star Wars 169
A Bookstore Browse 169
Inside the Theatre: Semiosis in Star Wars 172
Outside the Theatre: Luke Skywalker, James Bond, and
Indiana Jones in the Temple of the Technological State 185
Gone to Look for (Post-literate) America 196
6 It and Other Beasts: Jaws and the New Totemism 199
The Fish: An Anthropologist Goes to the Movie Studio 199
Totemic Animals in a Technological Age 202
The Fish Takes a Bite:
The Myth of Ecology and the Ecology of Myth 206
The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea: The Story of
Chief Brody, The Great White Shark and Flipper , 218
The Collapse of a Dichotomy: Mechanistic Animals and
Animalistic Machines in Jaws and Jurassic Park 229
7 Phone Home: E T as a Saga of the American Family 241
From Creature Feature and Saucer Saga to E T 241
What is ET? 243
Machines at Home:
The Suburban Family in a Technological State 247
Monsters at Home: E T and Poltergeist 253
Ambivalence at Home: The Myth of Family 256
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8 Conclusions 261
Understanding Our Movies and Ourselves:
Cultural Analysis and Film Criticism 261
The Logic of Things That Just Happen: The Sandpile and
Cellular Automaton as Models of Cultural Process 265
Something Else 283
Notes 291
References 311
Index of Movies 319
Index 323
Note on the Author 335
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