The Crowded Prairie American National Identity in the Hollywood Western |
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Author:
| Coyne, Michael D. |
Series title: | Cinema and Society Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-86064-259-3 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
Publisher: | I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $35.95 |
Book Description:
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This text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s. The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam,...
More DescriptionThis text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s. The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, increasing individual social alienation, and explains why a celebratory genre veered, during a generation of unprecedented power and prosperity, from sagas of national achievement to bleak, virtually asocial visions of life in the United States.