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26992
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English
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A (Napoleon) Dynamite Identity : Rural Idaho, the Politics of Place, and the Creation of a New Western Film
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Western Historical Quarterly
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Summer 2008
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39
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2
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Logan, UT
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Oxford University Press
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153-175
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This essay examines the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, analyzing its impact on national popular culture and rural identity in the American West, particularly in the town of Preston, Idaho, where the movie was filmed. As part coming-ofage film, part comedy, and part critique of real life, Napoleon Dynamite fashioned a unique and contested image of the West that helps to expose the underlying anxieties, stereotypes, assumptions, and hopes that still underscore much of the fraught relationship between the rural West and mainstream America.
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