La guerra interminable. La conquista del oeste como modelo cultural de la guerra contra el terror

This paper explores the cultural representation of American Indian Wars as a precedent of the arguments that legitimized the War on Terror after 9/11. Our goal will be to analyse the film narratives about the American Indian Wars as a culturally internalized ideological pattern that reemerges as a response to newer conflicts. More specifically, we will focus on two main aspects of westerns: the philosophy of Manifest Destiny and the representation of otherness, two ideas that help to explain how dominant ideology answered the 9/11 terrorist attacks.