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Hollywood's West : the American frontier in film, television, and history
- Title
- Hollywood's West : the American frontier in film, television, and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.
- Publication
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
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- Description
- xii, 373 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-344), filmography (p. [300]-321), and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 05-6990
- ISBN
- 0813123542 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005018026
- OCLC
- 61478031
- Title
- Hollywood's West : the American frontier in film, television, and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.
- Imprint
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-344), filmography (p. [300]-321), and index.
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- Added Author
- O'Connor, John E.Rollins, Peter C.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 05-6990