Maverick /

Airing on ABC from 1957 to 1962, Maverick appeared at a key moment in television Western history and provided a distinct alternative to the genre's usual moralistic lawmen in its hero, Bret Maverick. A non-violent gambler and part-time con man, Maverick's principles revolved around pleasur...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Broe, Dennis (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Collection:Contemporary approaches to film and television series. TV milestones.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Maverick (Television program)
Western television programs > United States > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : hell hath no fury like a cowboy scorned
  • 1. Warping Warner’s wranglers : Maverick’s challenge to the studio western
  • 2. Riding the revisionist range : Maverick’s challenge to the adult western
  • 3. A dandy in Abilene : Maverick as flâneur, situationist, and beat
  • 4. The "gentle grafter" and geopolitics : Maverick’s antiauthoritarian challenge to the ethos of the Cold War
  • Conclusion: "could I be wrong?" Maverick’s antiauthoritarian legacy and the fate of resistant TV.

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