Just Added to our 2001 Imaginarium schedule:
P A N E L D I S C U S S I O N
PRINT THE LEGEND: MYTH & HISTORY IN THE AMERICAN WEST
One of the frontiers we are most keen on exploring in our 2001 Imaginarium
program is the border between myth and history. Join us at 11 AM, on Thursday, July 5,
and Friday July 6, in the Flickerings building as a distinguished panel of
guests discuss issues arising from the coda of John Ford's classic film
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, in which a Western mythmaker asserts
the need to "print the legend" of "the wild West" — even when the legend
is at odds with the often less romantic facts of history.
Our panel includes:
James Wall, former editor of the liberal Christian Century who
loves the Westerns of John Ford, a genre accused of racism whose most visible
icon is that commie-hating macho man, John Wayne
Elmer Yazzie, a Native American artist whose home is the reservation
where John Ford filmed his classic Westerns.
William Romanowski, film and communications professor at Calvin College
whose new book Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture casts
a critical eye at Hollywood mythmaking.
Rod Bennett, editor of Wonder magazine and foremost exemplar of
mythic film criticsm at the Imaginarium.
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