Captivating Westerns : The Middle East in the American West /

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"Captivating Westerns examines the contact and conflict between the United States and the Middle East in the introduction, production, and circulation of the film and literary Western, and the racial politics embedded in the various versions and revisions of the Western genre"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kollin, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Motion pictures.
Literature.
American literature.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
West United States.
Middle East.
Middle East > In motion pictures.
West (U.S.) > In motion pictures.
Middle East > In literature.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Transnational Cowboys and the Middle East
  • 1. "I Longed to Be an Arab": The Eastern Originsof the Western
  • 2. From the Moors: The Easts and Wests of Willa Cather
  • 3. On Savagery and Civilization: Buffalo Bill and the East
  • 4. The Persian Peddler and the Egyptian Elixir: Racial Intimacies in Oklahoma!
  • 5. Specters of Loss: Violence and the National Missionin Post- 9/11 Westerns
  • 6. East of the Spaghetti Western: Global Travelsof the Genre
  • Conclusion: Once Upon a Time in the Middle EastNotes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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