BBC Arena - Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made (2003)
PDTV | 832 x 468 | .MKV/AVC @ 1400 Kbps | 1 h 12 min | 797 MB
Audio: English AAC 128 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary
The western movie, the cowboy novel, the rodeo and the wild west show are all means by which the West has become mythologised, distorted, caricatured and made larger than life. The West no longer lives in reality, only in the world of the imagination, but the key figure in the historical process whereby the factual, historical West was transformed into the 'Western myth' was William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody. It was within his persona that the raw material of experience was transformed into showbusiness.