Hollywood's West : the American frontier in film, television, and history /

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Hollywood's West examines popular perceptions of the frontier as a defining feature of American identity and history. Seventeen essays by prominent film scholars illuminate the allure of life on the edge of civilization and analyze how this region has been represented on big and small screens....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: O'Connor, John E. (Editor ), Rollins, Peter C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2005]
Temas:
Western films > United States > History and criticism.
Western television programs > United States.
Westerns > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Télévision > Émissions western > États-Unis.
Émissions western télévisées > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Western films
Western television programs
Fernsehwestern
Western > Film
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the West, Westerns, and American character / John E. O'Connor and Peter C. Rollins
  • The new Western history in 1931 : RKO and the challenge of Cimarron / J.E. Smyth
  • Tradition, parody, and adaptation : Jed Buell's unconventional West / Cynthia J. Miller
  • The Lone Ranger : adult legacies of a juvenile Western / John Shelton Lawrence
  • Wee Willie Winkie goes West : the influence of the British Empire genre on Ford's cavalry trilogy / Kathleen A. McDonough
  • Beyond the river : women and the role of the feminine in Howard Hawks's Red River / John Parris Springer
  • The "ache for home" : assimilation and separatism in Anthony Mann's Devil's doorway / Joanna Hearne
  • Giant helps America recognize the cost of discrimination : a lesson of World War II / Monique James Baxter
  • Rewriting High noon : transformations in American popular political culture during the Cold War, 1952-1968 / Matthew J. Costello
  • Almost angels, almost feminists : women in the professionals / Winona Howe
  • Cowboys and comedy : the simultaneous deconstruction and reinforcement of generic conventions in the Western parody / Matthew R. Turner
  • Historical discourse and American identity in Westerns since the Reagan era / Alexandra Keller
  • Challenging legends, complicating border lines : the concept of "frontera" in John Sayles's Lone star / Kimberly Sultze
  • Turner Network Television's made-for-TV Western films : engaging audiences through genre and themes / David Pierson.

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