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Myth of the Western : New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative / Matthew Carter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748685585
  • 9780748685592
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4365878
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.W4 C338 2014
  • PN1995.9.W4
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1. A Good Man with a Gun -- 2. A Fine Good Place to Be -- 3. Rethinking Revisionism -- PART TWO -- 4. What Counts as History and Whose History is It? -- 5. Actors Transcending the Darkness -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748685585','ISBN:9780748685592','ISBN:9780748685615']);Offers significant re-readings of key classic and contemporary WesternsWhat is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West?Myth of the Western re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions. Taking a number of critical-theoretical and philosophical approaches, Matthew Carter applies them to prominent forms of frontier historiography. He also considers the historiographic element of the Western by exploring the different ways in which the genre has responded to the issues raised by the frontier.Carter skilfully argues that the genre has - and continues to reveal - the complexities and contradictions at the heart of US society.With its clear analyses of and intellectual challenges to the film scholarship that has developed around the Western over a 65-year period, this book adds new depth to our understanding of specific film texts and of the genre as a whole - a welcome resource for students and scholars in both Film Studies and American Studies."
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1. A Good Man with a Gun -- 2. A Fine Good Place to Be -- 3. Rethinking Revisionism -- PART TWO -- 4. What Counts as History and Whose History is It? -- 5. Actors Transcending the Darkness -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748685585','ISBN:9780748685592','ISBN:9780748685615']);Offers significant re-readings of key classic and contemporary WesternsWhat is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West?Myth of the Western re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions. Taking a number of critical-theoretical and philosophical approaches, Matthew Carter applies them to prominent forms of frontier historiography. He also considers the historiographic element of the Western by exploring the different ways in which the genre has responded to the issues raised by the frontier.Carter skilfully argues that the genre has - and continues to reveal - the complexities and contradictions at the heart of US society.With its clear analyses of and intellectual challenges to the film scholarship that has developed around the Western over a 65-year period, this book adds new depth to our understanding of specific film texts and of the genre as a whole - a welcome resource for students and scholars in both Film Studies and American Studies."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)