Crowded Prairie

American National Identity in the Hollywood Western

AvMichael Coyne

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

This text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s. The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, increasing individual social alienation, and explains why a celebratory genre veered, during a generation of unprecedented power and prosperity, from sagas of national achievement to bleak, virtually asocial visions of life in the United States.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-12-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cinema and Society
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781860642593

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Michael Coyne is a writer and film historian. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Michael Coyne...heft[s] his pickax in search of intellectual nuggets..."The Crowded Prairie's" real strength lies in Coyne's passion. "The Washington Post"

Innehållsförteckning

Mirror for pre-war America - "Stagecoach" and the Western, 1939-1941; puritan paradigms - "My Darling Clementine" and "Duel in the Sun"; "The Lonely Crowd", Catholicism and consensus on the prairie - "Red River", "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"; dysfunctional family structures in classic westerns, 1950-1961 - "The Gunfighter", "Shane", "The Searchers" and "The Last Sunset"; politics and codes of masculinity in late 1950s star westerns - "The Big Country" and "Warlock"; "No More West to Win" - "How the West Was Won" and the elegiac westerns of 1962; a genre in flux, a nation in turmoil - the Vietnamization of the western in mid-1960s America; receding frontiers, narrowing options - "The Wild Bunch" and the western in Richard Nixon's America; legends revisited, legends revised in "Bicentennial Westerns" - "Buffalo Bill and the Indians", "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "The Shootist".