The New Custerism.

The article comments on Custerism in the cinema. There really is a mysterious world existing beside this one, a parallel dimension that can perhaps be explained not as much by physics or electromagnetism as by the symbolic poetry of mythology. It is the world where lightning strikes those whose intentions betray greed and self-importance. Instead of creating a great new multicultural paradigm, "Dances With Wolves," by its huge success, is spawning more of the same old clichés. Where the Old Custerists didn't mind blatantly stereotyping Indians as savages, for New Custerists the sentimentality and romance must not be sullied.