American Western

Name: American Western
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ISBN: 9780748621415

ISBN-10: 0748621415

ISBN-13: 9780748621415

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephen McVeigh

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This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century. Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely American form. The author argues that America's frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American meta-narrative that came to underpin much of the 'American century'. He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols, the evolution of this mythology, and its subversions and reconstructions throughout 20th-century…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 2/14/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Preface



The American West in the 1890s - a Pivotal Decade



Founding Western History: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner



Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Codification of the Western



Western Literature from The Virginian to Shane



Western Film from Silent to Noir



The Western and the Cold War: the Gunfighter, Heroic Leadership and Political Culture



New Western Perspectives: History and Literature



The Western and Political Culture, 1960-1992: Revisions of Shane



Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western


Bibliography


Web References


Index