Description: Connecting John Wayne's films to the transnational historical context of the 1950s, John Wayne's World argues that Wayne's depictions of heroic masculinity dovetailed with the rise of Hollywood's cultural dominance and the development of global capitalism after World War II.
Brief description: Russell Meeuf is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Idaho and coeditor of Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture.