This study searches for how the American public myth became the narrative of the western and why the genre mutated into sub-genres such as the revisionist western, after reviewing the literary process that the frontier myth became the public myth of America. The revisionist western reflects social backgrounds that the frontier myth didn’t play the role of the American public myth, which led to the crisis of American identities. All the characters in The Wild Bunch experience their own violence in their own places. Showing a wide range of violence, the mythography of the revisionist western discards the liberal progressive ideology of the frontier myth and suggests a new alternative narrative. While the mythography in the early western justifies the aggressive expansion under the cloak of civilization, that of the revisionist western questions whether the connotation and denotation of violence can be justified. Alternative narratives in the revisionist western can be applied to reflect the terror-epoch of the post 9/11 social imaginary.
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alternative narrative, counter myth, frontier myth, mythography, public myth, revisionist western, The Wild Bunch
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