Word: totemism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-boiled woman reporter publicizes Teawhit, drawing crowds of bumptious tourists, and con men stage a carnival and a rodeo-cheap shows that fake what once was real and vital. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author Leahy's Indians prove too willing victims of civilization. But between the indifferent sea and the mountains, the Indians and little Jerrod eke out a few moments of great tenderness...
...never be able to live his life. He drowns. Then dramatically in The Naked Night, one of Bergman's most powerful films, the hero after a moral and physical ordeal kills a bear. One Jungian analyst, after seeing the film, pointed out that the bear is the traditional totem of the evil mother in myths and fairy tales...