Contemporary westerns : film and television since 1990 /

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This collection of original essays investigates film and television westerns of the last 25 years. It offers the first substantial account of the trends and transformations in this under-explored period, arguing for the continued relevance and vibrancy of the western as a narrative form.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nelson, Andrew Patrick, 1982- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, 2013.
Temas:
Western films > United States > History and criticism.
Western television programs > United States.
Westerns > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Émissions western télévisées > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion pictures
Western films
Western television programs
West (U.S.) > In motion pictures.
United States
West United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The American western, 1990-2010 / Andrew Patrick Nelson
  • Pt. 1. Old West, New Stories
  • Dances with wolves: romantic reconstruction, historical reality, or both? / Michael T. Marsden
  • Revisionism 2.0? the Hollywood Western in the 1990s / Andrew Patrick Nelson
  • Tomorrow the green grass: Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / Adrian Danks
  • "One way or other, there's going to be justice": Rethinking HBO, Deadwood and the Western, 1984-2010 / Gareth James
  • Murder ballad: the assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Stephen Gaunson
  • The professional Western revived: southern diaspora, frontier heteroglossia and audience nostalgia in True Grit (2010) / Sue Matheson
  • Pt. 2 New Wests, old stories
  • No country for old men and There will be blood: classical western values eclipsed by modern capitalism / William C. Siska
  • Hi-ho, cyborg! savages, cyborgs and gender on the science fiction frontier / Sarah Banschbach
  • Osama bin Laden ain't here: Justifiedáas a 9/11 Western / Paul Zinder
  • Pure country pure strait: the myth of the Texas cowboy / Melynda Seaton
  • "I'm just a cowboy": transnational identities of the Border Country in The three burials of Melquiades Estrada / Matthew Carter.

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