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Late Westerns : the persistence of a genre /

"Mitchell argues that the Western continues to engage us because recent films deliberately defy classic patterns yet still appeal to an implicit fondness for genre conventions. Narrative expectations are so deeply stamped on our consciousness that we cannot escape reimposing assumptions on mate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Colección:Postwestern horizons
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: There's No Such Things as a Postwestern, and a Good Thing Too
  • 1. Ghostly Evocations in Bad Day at Black Rock
  • 2. Catching the 3:10 to Yuma
  • 3. Border-Crossing in Lone Star
  • 4. Alternative Facts in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  • 5. Defying Expectations in A History of Violence and Brokeback Mountain
  • 6. Dueling Genres in No Country for Old Men 7. Subverting Late Westerns in The Counselor
  • Epilogue: Habits of Imagination.