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Author : Janet Walker
Release : 2001
Genre : West (U.S.)
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Book Rating : 245/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Westerns by : Janet Walker
Download or read book Westerns written by Janet Walker. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : R. Philip Loy
Release : 2001-07-11
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 760/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Westerns and American Culture, 1930-1955 by : R. Philip Loy
Download or read book Westerns and American Culture, 1930-1955 written by R. Philip Loy. This book was released on 2001-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have fond memories of Friday nights and Saturday afternoons spent in theatres watching cowboy stars of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s chase villains across the silver screen or help a heroine out of harm's way. Over 2,600 Westerns were produced between 1930 and 1955 and they became a defining part of American culture. This work focuses on the idea that Westerns were one of the vehicles by which viewers learned the values and norms of a wide range of social relationships and behavior, and thus examines the ways in which Western movies reflected American life and culture during this quarter century. Chapters discuss such topics as the ways that Westerns included current events in film plot and dialogue, reinforced the role of Christianity in American culture, reflected the emergence of a strong central government, and mirrored attitudes toward private enterprise. Also covered is how Westerns represented racial minorities, women, and Indians.
Author : Lee Clark Mitchell
Release : 2018-12-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 697/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Late Westerns by : Lee Clark Mitchell
Download or read book Late Westerns written by Lee Clark Mitchell. This book was released on 2018-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century the cinematic Western has been America's most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle--with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre--maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach "post" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily, defied generic patterns, the Western continues to enthrall audiences. It does so by engaging narrative expectations stamped on our collective consciousness so firmly as to integrate materials that might not seem obviously "Western" at all. Through plot cues, narrative reminders, and even cinematic frameworks, recent films shape interpretive understanding by triggering a long-standing familiarity audiences have with the genre. Mitchell's critical analysis reveals how these films engage a thematic and cinematic border-crossing in which their formal innovations and odd plots succeed deconstructively, encouraging by allusion, implication, and citation the evocation of generic meaning from ingredients that otherwise might be interpreted quite differently. Applying genre theory with close cinematic readings, Mitchell posits that the Western has essentially been "post" all along.
Author : Barrie Hanfling
Release : 2010-04-12
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 009/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Westerns and the Trail of Tradition by : Barrie Hanfling
Download or read book Westerns and the Trail of Tradition written by Barrie Hanfling. This book was released on 2010-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century, the western has fluctuated in popularity. By 2010 it has come to stand, to the dismay of many, at one of its lowest points. Beginning with 1929 and the advent of talkies (In Old Arizona), the author discusses the cultural and industry trends, the directors, producers, studios and especially the stars, and looks at the ways in which their personalities (and financial ups and downs) affected the way westerns were shot. The improvements in technology through the years, the trick horses, the fistfight choreography, the evolution of plotlines--these are fascinating indicators of the way Americans themselves were changing.
Author : Lee Broughton
Release : 2020-03-19
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 513/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reframing Cult Westerns by : Lee Broughton
Download or read book Reframing Cult Westerns written by Lee Broughton. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once one of the most popular film genres and a key player in the birth of early narrative cinema, the Western has experienced a rebirth in the era of post-classical filmmaking with a small but noteworthy selection of Westerns being produced long after the genre's 1950s heyday. Thanks to regular repertory cinema and television screenings, home video releases and critical reappraisals by cultural gatekeepers such as Quentin Tarantino, an ever-increasing number of these Westerns have become cult films. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent, bizarre or simply little heard-of obscurities, Reframing Cult Westerns offers a multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of cult Western films. These twelve essays present a wide-ranging methodological scope, from industrial histories to ecocritical approaches, auteurist analysis to queer and other ideological angles. With a thorough analysis of the genre from international perspectives, Reframing Cult Westerns offers fresh insight on the Western as a global phenomenon.
