He was some kind of a man : masculinities in the B western / Roderick McGillis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGillis, Roderick.

Series:

Film + media studies.

Film and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Western films--History and criticism.

Western films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Masculinities in the B western

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930's to the early 1950's. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century's most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. The first serious study of a body of films that was central to the youth of two generations, He Was Some Kind of a Man combines the author's childhood fascination with this genre with an interdisciplinary scholarly exploration

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Ride the High Country, or "They Went Thataway"; 2 Cowboy Codes: Straight and Pure and All Boy; 3 When We Were Young: Nostalgia and the Cowboy Hero; 4 Arms and the Man: The Friendly Gun; 5 Give Me My Boots and Saddles: Camp Cowboy; 6 Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range; 7 White Hats and White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy?; 8 Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, and Masculinity; 9 Corporate Cowboys and the Shaping of a Nation; Postscript: The Frontiersman (1938); List of Films Mentioned; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612534270

9781282534278

1282534270

9781554582891

155458289X

OCLC:

647922177