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I. Overture 5. John Wayne and Friends Redeem the Village Training for manhood Villages under siege The Shootist’s disciple with a gun Tennessee moonshine, gambling, and whores 6. Cleansing Perilous Cities with Golden Violence Death Wish Times Five Death Wish as “Regeneration through Violence” Making the Death Wish Scenario Credible The Reassurances of the Death Wish Myth The Call to Discipleship Bernard Goetz as Old West Disciple Cleansing the Urban School with Joe Clark 7. Superheroic Presidents Redeem the Nation The American Presidency and the Monomyth George Washington as Selfless Savior Abraham Lincoln as Legitimate Law Breaker The Emergence of the Superheroic Presidency in the Axial Decade A Hearst-Roosevelt Collaboration The Young Mr. Lincoln Monomythic Expansion in The Young Mr. Lincoln The President as Action-adventure Hero Independence Day & Air Force One Youthful Voters and the Mythic Presidency 8. Lethal Patriots Break the Rhythm Men without Women Crusades Against Government in the Rambo Films The Unforgiven Redeemer Lethal broadsword, Lethal Hatchet Saving Democracy with Bombs The Unabomber’s Crusade for the “Freedom Club” Fueling the myth with ammonium nitrate IV. Hymns and Creeds of the American Monomyth 9. Cheerful Saints and Melodious Lions The code of sanitation in Disney’s land Disney’s Creation of a Super Mouse Mary Poppins’ Heidi touch Disney’s beautification of violence The moralization of nature and war The cultural supremacy of Walt Disney The restoration of beastly dynasty Other Disney Kingdoms Disney as Democratic Educator? 10. The Sound of One Hand Killing: Monomythic Video Games The Emergence of a Games Technology The Columbine Questions Digital Transformation of the Toy World Playing to Save All Mankind Gunslinging with a Joystick Monmythic Videogames Computers and democratic hope 11. Star Trek’s Humanistic Militarism The message of The Original Series Star Trek's American Mission Star Trek's anti-mythic bias and its own mythic ingredients The mythic call of sexual renunciation The foreshortened democracy of Star Trek 12. Star Trek Faith as a Fan-Made Religion Kirk as Serpent in the Garden with “TheApple” The Ecstatic Trekkie Phase of Spiritual Formation ST as the Private Redemption of Trekkers The Creation of a Fan-Made Religion The Significance of Dress Up and Play ST’s Corporate Version of Pilgrimage 13. Fascist Faith in the Star Wars Universe “Who will save your soul?” The Religious Aspirations of George Lucas Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as Monomythic Heroes The Political Symbolisms of Star Wars Fascism, Star Wars’ Spiritual Cousin Star Wars’ Fascism and Pop Religion 14. Monomythic Credotainment Credotainment culture Smash-face Buddhism: the “Ballistic Mystic” Superheroic Bullet Time in The Matrix Touched by... Whatever You Need Credotainment and Redemptive Expectations V. Cadenza: Searching for Democratic Melodies 15. The Discordant Music of Catastrophe Nature as ferocious moralist Cues for impending punishment Moralistic Jaws Brody as a neurotic Spiderman Redemptive Function of Women’s Blood Tertullian ecstasy Disaster politics in Armageddon The end times for all politics in Left Behind Karl Kraus and the Acoustics of Disaster 16. Deceptive Fugues, Democratic Dances “Rambo goes to Washington” The Premise of a Spectator Democracy Help Wanted: Democratic Dancers The Straight Story Dead Man Walking Concessions to the Monomyth Censorship or...??? September 11 and Democratic Heroism |