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- Title
When Buffalo Bill crossed the ocean: Native American scenes in early twentieth century European culture.
- Authors
Lottini, Irene
- Abstract
Between 1886 and 1906 Buffalo Bill's 'Wild West' show travelled across Europe presenting its performances in England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Holland and Belgium. Encountering the 'Indian motif' which had already been introduced into popular culture through different forms of adventure literature, Buffalo Bill's late nineteenth century European performances popularized a series of images that his 1905-06 tour confirmed and the culture industry began to reproduce. From German ethnographic shows to Italian opera, from popular literature to silent cinema, the response to Buffalo Bill's tours was a proliferation of western scenes through different media. In the same years in which European countries were consolidating their colonial empires or starting their new expansionistic adventures, Buffalo Bill's 'spectacularization' of Native Americans merged with the dominant imperialistic point of view and stimulated the creation of an imagery that reasserted the idea of the White Men's superiority and civilizing mission.
- Subjects
BUFFALO Bill, 1846-1917; BUFFALO Bill's Wild West Co.; HISTORY of popular culture; SILENT films -- History &; criticism; POPULAR literature; HISTORY of imperialism; AMERICAN influences on European civilization; EUROPEAN history, 1871-1918
- Publication
European Journal of American Culture, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 3, p187
- ISSN
1466-0407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ejac.31.3.187_1