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Gunfight at the eco-corral : western cinema and the environment / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.

Title
Gunfight at the eco-corral : western cinema and the environment / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.
Author
Murray, Robin L.
Publication
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors
Heumann, Joseph K.
Description
xii, 260 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Western films > History and criticism
  • Ecology in motion pictures
  • Nature in motion pictures
  • Environmental protection and motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Don't fence me in: ecology and free-range and fenced ranching in shane and sea of grass -- Mining westerns: seeking sustainable development in McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- Is water a right?: The ballad of Cable Hogue and environmental law -- The rush for land, the rush for oil, the rush for progress: spectacle in Cimarron, Tulsa, Comes a horseman, and There will be blood -- Transcontinental technologies: telegraphs, trains, and the environment in Union Pacific, Jesse James, and The last hunt -- Smoke signals and American Indian westerns: narratives of environmental adaptation -- A west and a western that works?: contemporary traditional westerns, Riders of the whistling pines, and Silver City.
ISBN
  • 9780806142463 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0806142464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011028909
OCLC
  • 743039872
  • SCSB-12737849
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