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Professionals in Western film and fiction : the portrayal of doctors, lawyers, journalists, clergymen and others
- Title
- Professionals in Western film and fiction : the portrayal of doctors, lawyers, journalists, clergymen and others / Kenneth E. Hall ; foreword by Peter Noçon and Peter Bischoff.
- Author
- Hall, Kenneth E., 1954-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2019]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vii, 223 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book compares the roles of civil professionals in most American Westerns to those in work on the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Included are studies on the Santiago Toole novels by Richard Wheeler, Strange Lady in Town with Greer Garson and La sombra del Caudillo by Martín Luis Guzmán"--
- Alternative Title
- Portrayal of doctors, lawyers, journalists, clergymen and others
- Subjects
- Professional employees in literature
- History
- Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Literature and the war
- Professions in literature
- Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Motion pictures and the war
- Western films > United States > History and criticism
- American fiction > West (U.S.) > History and criticism
- Mexican fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Professional employees in motion pictures
- Motion pictures
- Western stories > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-209) and index.
- Contents
- Professional case study : doctors on the frontier -- Professional allies : doctors, journalists, and other fixers -- Masquerades : civil professionals in disguise -- Encroachments of culture : the frontier in history and fiction -- Professionals as civilization meets barbarism -- Professionals across the border : Mexican Revolution fiction and "professional westerns".
- Call Number
- MFL 19-3956
- ISBN
- 9780786497294
- 0786497297
- LCCN
- 2019015344
- OCLC
- 1105929601
- Author
- Hall, Kenneth E., 1954- author.
- Title
- Professionals in Western film and fiction : the portrayal of doctors, lawyers, journalists, clergymen and others / Kenneth E. Hall ; foreword by Peter Noçon and Peter Bischoff.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-209) and index.
- Added Author
- Noçon, Peter, writer of foreword.Bischoff, Peter, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 19-3956