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In The Century That Has Passed Since Billy The Kid Rode The Range In Southern New Mexico, This Adolescent Killer Has Never Ceased To Fascinate American Writers And, Later, Filmmakers. Historians Continue To Debate The Basic Facts Of His Life. This Book, Unlike Many Others, Does Not Attempt To Separate The Facts About The Kid From The Mists Of Legend That Surround Him. Based On The Premise That The True Significance Of Billy The Kid Lies Not In What He Actually Did But In His Extraordinary Appeal To The Popular Imagination, Inventing Billy The Kid Examines The Kid As A Character And Symbol In American Popular Culture. From The First Dime Novel Published About Billy A Month After His Death In 1881 To The Films Of The 1970s, The Author Traces The Changing Ideas And Images Of The Kid And What They Tell Us About The Kid's Observers And Audiences.^ Each Generation Of Americans, He Shows, Has Re-created The Kid In Novels And Movies, Poems And Plays, Ballets And Comic Books, To Serve Its Own Psychological And Sociological Needs. Originally The Kid Was Portrayed As A Demonic Embodiment Of Evil Whose Death Reaffirmed The Benevolent Course Of American History, But By The 1920s He Had Become A

Author

Stephen, 1949- Tatum

Publisher

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826306104

Subjects

Art, Arts