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work_iyrrnis4c5cwbg6rqiklpylcue	Laura I. H. Beattie	Wilderness, the West and the Myth of the Frontier in Sean Penn's Into the Wild	2013.0	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5430	309	67	Title Wilderness, the West and the Myth of the Frontier in Sean Penn's Into the Wild William Cronon's thesis that the idea of wilderness as an anti-human place is merely a many Americans, wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilisation, that all too human wilderness as an escape from human civilisation is highly ironic, given the fact that "far from being the frontier as a structure through which to read the film, I intend to prove that, ironically, Chris' already noted, in the opening scenes of the film, the frontier for Chris is shown to be the extreme bring civilisation into the wilderness.6 Not only, however, does Chris act completely for himself but he Chris' conception of wilderness as a piece of civilisation he brings with him into the Alaskan wildness. Thus the frontier between the Alaskan Wilderness and the rest of the world becomes for Chris a 	./cache/work_iyrrnis4c5cwbg6rqiklpylcue.pdf	./txt/work_iyrrnis4c5cwbg6rqiklpylcue.txt