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Hollywood's West The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History

Title
Hollywood's West [electronic resource] : 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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Additional Authors
  • Rollins, Peter C.
  • O'Connor, John E.
  • Project Muse.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 373 p. :) : ill.
Uniform Title
  • Hollywood's West (Online)
  • Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject
  • Western television programs > United States
  • Western films > United States > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes filmography: p. [300]-321.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-344) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
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.
OCLC
ssj0000172601
Title
Hollywood's West [electronic resource] : 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. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography
Includes filmography: p. [300]-321.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-344) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Rollins, Peter C.
O'Connor, John E.
Project Muse.
LCCN
2005018026
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