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Release : 2010
Genre : Short stories
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Collector's Book of Westerns by :
Download or read book The Collector's Book of Westerns written by . This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection from some of the greatest classic writers of the compelling body of literature that immortalized ranchers and cowpunchers, trappers and prospectors, gamblers and lawmen.
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Release : 2013-07-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Westerns by : Jon E. Lewis
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Westerns written by Jon E. Lewis. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West. It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.
Author : Gary R. Edgerton
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 081/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Westerns by : Gary R. Edgerton
Download or read book Westerns written by Gary R. Edgerton. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and television to explore questions of national identity and purpose. Westerns: The Essential Collection comprises the Journal of Popular Film and Television’s rich and longstanding legacy of scholarship on Westerns with a new special issue devoted exclusively to the genre. This collection examines and analyzes the evolution and significance of the screen Western from its earliest beginnings to its current global reach and relevance in the 21st century. Westerns: The Essential Collection addresses the rise, fall and durability of the genre, and examines its preoccupation with multicultural matters in its organizational structure. Containing eighteen essays published between 1972 and 2011, this seminal work is divided into six sections covering Silent Westerns, Classic Westerns, Race and Westerns, Gender and Westerns, Revisionist Westerns and Westerns in Global Context. A wide range of international contributors offer original critical perspectives on the intricate relationship between American culture and Western films and television series. Westerns: The Essential Collection places the genre squarely within the broader aesthetic, socio-historical, cultural and political dimensions of life in the United States as well as internationally, where the Western has been reinvigorated and reinvented many times. This groundbreaking anthology illustrates how Western films and television series have been used to define the present and discover the future by looking backwards at America’s imagined past.
Author : Owen Wister
Release : 2017-10-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Classic Westerns by : Owen Wister
Download or read book Classic Westerns written by Owen Wister. This book was released on 2017-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover six classic novels as you follow the footsteps of the trailblazers who settled the American West. As the American West opened up to settlers after the Civil War, people were eager for tales of great adventures, endless possibilities, and the pioneering spirit. Classic Westerns is a collection of six novels that captured this sense of exploration and brought the rugged landscape into the homes of readers everywhere. These novels—The Virginian by Owen Wister, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, The Lone Star Ranger and The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey, and Gunman’s Reckoning and The Untamed by Max Brand—tell of life on the open plains, in dusty outposts, and alongside majestic mountain ranges that rose to greet travelers who ventured forth into the unexplored country to find their destinies.
Author : John H. Lenihan
Release : 1980
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 549/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Showdown, Confronting Modern America in the Western Film by : John H. Lenihan
Download or read book Showdown, Confronting Modern America in the Western Film written by John H. Lenihan. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showdown is a study of America's oldest, most representative film genre, the Western movie from the perspective of social allegory. It assesses scores of major and minor films to show how Westerns function as vehicles for contemporary social and political critiques of American life.
