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The American Western / Stephen McVeigh.
LIBRA PS374.W4 M38 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McVeigh, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western films--History and criticism.
- Western films.
- Western stories--History and criticism.
- Western stories.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- 1 The American West in the 1890s - a Pivotal Decade 1
- 2 Founding Western History: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner 13
- 3 Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Codification of the Western 27
- 4 Western Literature from The Virginian to Shane 38
- 5 Western Film from Silent to Noir 58
- 6 The Western and the Cold War: the Gunfighter, Heroic Leadership and Political Culture 76
- 7 New Western Perspectives: History and Literature 140
- 8 The Western and Political Culture, 1960-1992: Revisions of Shane 155
- 9 Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western 213
- Web References 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (pages 221-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748621408
- 0748621407
- 0748621415
- 9780748621415
- OCLC:
- 74523741
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