Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Lee Clark Mitchell
Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from classic films such as STAGECOACH to spaghetti Westerns like A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, culture scholar Lee Clark Mitchell shows how Westerns as a genre helped assuage a series of crises in American culture by responding to fears and obsessions of its audience--particularly what it means to be a "man". 30 photos. 5 line drawings.
First line
A curious sense of disproportion is evoked by any listing of luminaries who loved Westerns, as if that were the sole common denominator among such different lives: Richard Nixon, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Stalin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jean Cocteau, Sherwood Anderson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Simone de Beauvoir, Douglas MacArthur, Akira Kurosawa.
From the rear cover
Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from classic films like Stagecoach to spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars, Mitchell shows how Westerns helped assuage a series of crises in American culture. This landmark study shows that the Western owes its perennial appeal not to unchanging conventions but to the deftness with which it responds to the obsessions and fears of its audience. And no obsession, Lee Mitchell argues, has figured more prominently in the Western than what it means to be a man.
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- Title Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film
- Author Lee Clark Mitchell
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 348
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date May 8, 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780226532356 / 0226532356
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.05 x 6.09 x 0.94 in (22.99 x 15.47 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.087
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