American cinema is not just a cultural product, it is the nation’s most powerful engine of
myth-making.
Written from the unique vantage point of a Türkiye-based scholar of American Studies,
American Cultural Identity in the Magic Box offers a rare, comparative reading of the myths
and contradictions that shape the United States. Through films like Raging Bull, Bonnie and
Clyde, Forrest Gump, and Dances with Wolves, Eren Alkan uncovers how America imagines
itself and ...