Hollywood's West : the American frontier in film, television, and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2005], ©2005.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : the West, Westerns, and American character / John E. O'Connor and Peter C. Rollins
- The new Western history in 1931 : RKO and the challenge of Cimarron / J.E. Smyth
- Tradition, parody, and adaptation : Jed Buell's unconventional West / Cynthia J. Miller
- The Lone Ranger : adult legacies of a juvenile Western / John Shelton Lawrence
- Wee Willie Winkie goes West : the influence of the British Empire genre on Ford's cavalry trilogy / Kathleen A. McDonough
- Beyond the river : women and the role of the feminine in Howard Hawks's Red River / John Parris Springer
- The "ache for home" : assimilation and separatism in Anthony Mann's Devil's doorway / Joanna Hearne
- Giant helps America recognize the cost of discrimination : a lesson of World War II / Monique James Baxter
- Rewriting High noon : transformations in American popular political culture during the Cold War, 1952-1968 / Matthew J. Costello
- Almost angels, almost feminists : women in The professionals / Winona Howe
- Cowboys and comedy : the simultaneous deconstruction and reinforcement of generic conventions in the Western parody / Matthew R. Turner
- Historical discourse and American identity in Westerns since the Reagan era / Alexandra Keller
- Challenging legends, complicating border lines : the concept of "frontera" in John Sayles's Lone star / Kimberly Sultze
- Turner Network Television's made-for-TV Western films : engaging audiences through genre and themes / David Pierson.