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Post-westerns : cinema, region, West / Neil Campbell.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.W4 C325 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Neil, 1957-
- Series:
- Postwestern horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western films--United States--History and criticism.
- Western films.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 415 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- "A study of post-1945 contemporary Western films within the social and cultural context of western studies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Dead Westerns: The Posthumous and the Post-Western 19
- 2 Mourning in America: The Lusty Men (1952) and Bad Day at Black Rock (1954) 56
- 3 "You and Your God's Country": The Misfits (1961) 97
- 4 "We Keep Heading West": Dennis Hopper and the Post-Western 134
- 5 Exile and Dislocation in the Urban Post-Western: The Exiles (1961) and Fat City (1972) 164
- 6 Post-Western Genealogies: John Sayles's Lone Star (1996) and Silver City (2004) 202
- 7 "Opened from the Inside Out": Wim Wenders's Don't Come Knocking (2005) 240
- 8 The Idioms of Living: Donna Deitch and Allison Anders 272
- 9 The Schizo-West: Down in the Valley (2005) 305
- 10 Spook Country: The Pensive West of No Country for Old Men (2007) 328.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-406) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803234765
- 0803234767
- OCLC:
- 839395962
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