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...
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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 American form. The author argues that America's frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American meta-narrative that came to underpin much of the 'American century'. He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols, the e
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Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The American West in the 1890s - a Pivotal Decade; Chapter 2: Founding Western History: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner; Chapter 3: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Codification of the Western; Chapter 4: Western Literature from The Virginian to Shane; Chapter 5: Western Film from Silent to Noir; Chapter 6: The Western and the Cold War: the Gunfighter, Heroic Leadership and Political Culture; Chapter 7: New Western Perspectives: History and Literature; Chapter 8: The Western and Political Culture, 1960-1992: Revisions of Shane
Chapter 9: Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American WesternBibliography; Web References; Index
This broad-ranging survey considers the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western (in literature, film and history) and America in the 20th century. Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The...
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This broad-ranging survey considers the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western (in literature, film and history) and America in the 20th century. Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The American Western -- Chapter 1: The American West in the 1890s - a Pivotal Decade -- Chapter 2: Founding Western History: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner -- Theodore Roosevelt and The Winning of the West (1889-96) -- Frederick Jackson Turner and The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) -- Roosevelt and Turner: a Question of Influence -- Chapter 3: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Codification of the Western -- Chapter 4: Western Literature from The Virginian to Shane -- The Virginian (1902) -- The Western Novel in the Wake of The Virginian -- Shane (1949) -- Chapter 5: Western Film from Silent to Noir -- Bronco Bill Anderson and William S. Hart -- The Rise of Cinema -- The Silent Western Epics -- The Western in the 1930s and 1940s -- Western Noir -- Chapter 6: The Western and the Cold War: the Gunfighter, Heroic Leadership and Political Culture -- Interpretations of Time -- The Gunfighter (1950) -- Jimmy Ringo to Will Kane -- The Tin Star by John M. Cunningham -- High Noon (1952): The Eisenhower Western -- Eisenhower as Kane -- The United States as Hadleyville -- Shane (1953): the Kennedy Western -- John F. Kennedy as Shane -- The Presidency in 1960 -- Kennedy or Nixon: Does it Make Any Difference? (1960) -- The Nixon-Kennedy Debates -- Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1964) -- Chapter 7: New Western Perspectives: History and Literature -- The New Western History -- New Western Perspectives and Western Literature -- Chapter 8: The Western and Political Culture, 1960-1992: Revisions of Shane -- Why Does Shane Come Back? -- Leone, Eastwood and the Spaghetti Western -- Cinecitta Studios: Hollywood comes to Rome -- High Plains Drifter (1973) -- Pale Rider (1985) -- Unforgiven (1992) -- Chapter 9: Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western -- Post-9/11 Westerns.
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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...
mehr
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 American form. The author argues that Americas frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American meta-narrative that came to underpin much of the American century. He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols, the e.
