The American Western

The American Western / Stephen McVeigh.

This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century. Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely Ame...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McVeigh, Stephen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Western films > History and criticism.
Western stories > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Western films
Western stories
Western > Film
Westernliteratur
Wild-westfilms.
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • The American West in the 1890s : a pivotal decade
  • Founding western history : Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the codification of the western
  • Western literature from The Virginian to Shane
  • Western film from silent to noir
  • The western and the Cold War : the gunfighter, heroic leadership and political culture
  • New western perspectives : history and literature
  • The western and political culture, 1960-1992 : revisions of Shane
  • Wanted dead or alive : 9/11 and the American western.

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