Reproducing the Frontier: How Media Images Shape Perceptions of Natural Environments of Wilderness.

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dc.contributor.advisorFoxman, Maxwell
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Travis
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-07T21:47:50Z
dc.date.available2024-08-07T21:47:50Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-07
dc.description.abstractThe visual image has long been renowned for its world-shaping abilities. This study argues that the worlds of images give life to visual cultures for how audiences go about “visualizing” physical space through images that blur the line between fiction and reality. This study attempts to uncover a longstanding myth of how visual culture has led to the social and physical change of the state of Montana, specifically in how the cultural myth of the American Frontier has been creatively reproduced through visualized entertainment to promote fantasy over reality for the purpose of creating and regulating power relations among territories, races, and genders. An analysis of the television show, Yellowstone, is analyzed to deconstructs how visual biopolitics shape and dictate a new frontier, maintaining oppressive structures throughout the natural landscape that imply relations of purification, exemption, and expulsion. This study begins by understanding what the Frontier Myth is and how it came to be, followed by understanding how it is utilized in the entertainment show Yellowstone, whereby the portrayals of territorialization, race, gender and agriculture are analyzed. Lastly, the study will suggest further research opportunities for future studies.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29766
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectBiopoliticsen_US
dc.subjectFrontieren_US
dc.subjectLandscapesen_US
dc.subjectNaturalen_US
dc.subjectVisual Communicationen_US
dc.subjectYellowstoneen_US
dc.titleReproducing the Frontier: How Media Images Shape Perceptions of Natural Environments of Wilderness.
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Journalism and Communication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.S.

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