The quick, the dead and the revived : the many lives of the Western film / Joseph Maddrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maddrey, Joseph, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Western films--United States.

Western films.

Western films--History and criticism.

United States.

Physical Description:

vi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

Summary:

For well more than a century, Western films have embodied the United States' most fundamental doctrine-expansionism-and depicted, in a uniquely American way, the archetypal battle between good and evil. Westerns also depict a country defined and re-defined by complex crises. World War II transformed the genre as well as the nation's identity. Since then, Hollywood filmmakers have been fighting America's ideological wars onscreen by translating modern-day politics into the timeless mythology of the Old West. This book surveys the most iconic and influential Westerns, examines Hollywood stars and their political stripes and reveals the familiar Westerns tropes-which became elements in popular action, science fiction and horror films. This then sets the stage for the Western revival of the 1990s and a period of reinvention in the 21st century. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Year of the Gun (1939) 9

II Westerners at War (1940-1946) 21

III Blood on the Moon (1947-1949) 32

IV High Noon (1950-1956) 44

V The Masculine Mystique (1950-1959) 57

VI The Lost Cowboys (1955-1959) 71

VII The New Frontier (1960-1965) 82

VIII Blood Money (1964-1968) 95

IX Mud and Rags (1967-1973) 107

X Death Wish (1971-1980) 121

XI Back to the Future (1977-1988) 133

XII Young Guns (1988-2001) 144

XIII Fever Dream (2002-2010) 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-194) and index.

ISBN:

1476665516

9781476665511

OCLC:

934885303