Post-westerns : cinema, region, West

Post-westerns : cinema, region, West / Neil Campbell.

A study of post-1945 contemporary Western films within the social and cultural context of western studies. This book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films - including Bad Day at Black Rock, The Misfits, Lone Star, Easy Rider, Gas Food Lodging, Down in the Valley, and No Country for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, Neil, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Series:Postwestern horizons.
Subjects:
Western films > United States > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Western films
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Big Hats, Horses, and Dust : The Visible and Invisible West
  • 1. Dead Westerns : The Posthumous and the Post-Western
  • 2. Mourning in America : The Lusty Men (1952) and Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)
  • 3. "You and Your God's Country" : The Misfits (1961)
  • 4. "We Keep Heading West" : Dennis Hopper and the Post-Western
  • 5. Exile and Dislocation in the Urban Post-Western : The Exiles (1961) and Fat City (1972)
  • 6. Post-Western Genealogies : John Sayles's Lone Star (1996) and Silver City (2004)
  • 7. "Opened from the Inside Out" : Wim Wenders's Don't Come Knocking (2005)
  • 8. The Idioms of Living : Donna Deitch and Allison Anders
  • 9. The Schizo-West : Down in the Valley (2005)
  • 10. Spook Country : The Pensive West of No Country for Old Men (2007)
  • Conclusion. Is There a Politics of the Post-Western?.

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