"The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film ge…
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"The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film ge…
Providing a critical analysis of the greatest film-makers of the Western genre, this text examines how their work has been challenged by revisionist historical accounts and by movements such as feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism and psychoanalysis.
Providing a critical analysis of the greatest film-makers of the Western genre, this text examines how their work has been challenged by revisionist historical accounts and by movements such as feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism and psychoanalysis.
The Western is the most important genre in American cinema. Though the production of films may have declined since the 1960s, the Western's influence has spread worldwide, and far beyond the movies. Recently the New Western History, attempting to put the record straight where wo…
"In this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' "Red River" and John Ford's "The Man …
Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. Co…
Stanley Corkin examines the western film, which enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s & 1960s, placing the developing themes exploited in this genre of movie in the political & cultural context of the Cold War.
Western movies: the story of the West on screen
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A beautifully illustrated and interesting analysis of the western motion picture form, how it has evolved and what its role has been in the past fifty years.
The purpose of this book is to explain the popularity of the Western film. The author, Sociologist Will Wright, studied the top-grossing western films from 1930 to 1972 and as a result of his analysis shows how the plots have changed correspondingly to the changes in American so…
