Dream West : : Politics and Religion in Cowboy Movies /

Dream West : : Politics and Religion in Cowboy Movies / / Douglas Brode.

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While political liberals celebrated the end of “cowboy politics” with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still vociferously support “cowboy” values such as small government, low taxes, free-market capitalism, and the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Brode, Douglas,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (390 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. “CODE OF THE WEST” POLITICS, RELIGION, AND POPULAR CULTURE
  • PART ONE. COWBOY POLITICS: ROOSEVELT THROUGH REAGAN
  • 1 TO DIE IN THE WEST: THE O.K. CORRAL, HISTORY VERSUS FILM
  • 2 SHERIFF OF COCHISE: THIRTY SECONDS TO ETERNITY
  • 3 RED, WHITE, AND BLUE STATES. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
  • 4 “ FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS” GUN CONTROL IN THE WEST AND WESTERNS
  • 5 WAY OF THE GUN: VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN LIFE
  • 6 IT’S A MAN’S WORLD? GENDER POLITICS ON HOLLYWOOD’S FRONTIER
  • 7 GO WEST, YOUNG (BUSINESS)MAN: AMERICAN DREAMERS, POLITICAL SCHEMERS
  • 8 REDISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH: GENE AUTRY, FRANK CAPRA, AND THE NEW DEAL WESTERN
  • 9 DON’T FENCE ME IN: RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM AND OPEN RANGE
  • 10 SILENT SPRINGS, VANISHING PRAIRIES: ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE WESTERN
  • 11 RED STATES, RED MENACE: OF COWBOYS AND COMMUNISM
  • 12 ONCE UPON A TIME IN A REVOLUTION: RADICAL POLITICS AND THE WESTERN FILM
  • 13 VIVA JUÁREZ! VIVA VILLA! VIVA ZAPATA! THE BIOGRAPHICAL WESTERN AS POLITICAL ALLEGORY
  • 14 ALL THE RIGHT STUFF: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JOHN WAYNE
  • 15 FLAG-WAVING ON THE WILD FRONTIER: STARS AND STRIPES AS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
  • PART TWO. GOD’S COUNTRY: RELIGION IN THE WESTERN FILM
  • 16 ODES TO AMERICAN IMPERIALISM: MANIFEST DESTINY IN WESTERN MOVIES
  • 17 THE TOWN AND THE CITY: SPACE AS THEME, PLACE AS CHARACTER
  • 18 GLORY IN THE (WILD)FLOWER: ROMANTICISM ON THE OPEN RANGE
  • 19 HEARTS OF DARKNESS, SOULS OF LIGHT: VISIONS OF NATURE IN AMERICAN FILM AND FICTION
  • 20 A CHAPEL IN THE CANYON: RELIGIOSITY, AMERICAN-STYLE
  • 21 MULTICULTURALISM, MORMONISM, AND MOVIES: HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORY AND CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
  • 22 END OF THE TRAIL: THE DARK SIDE OF FAITH
  • 23 RIDE OUT FOR VENGEANCE: REVISING A WESTERN PARADIGM
  • 24 OLD TESTAMENT AND NEW: DAYS OF WRATH, ANGELS OF MERCY
  • 25 THE CHURCH AND THE SALOON: CATHOLIC VERSUS PROTESTANT WESTERNS
  • 26 ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS: THE PISTOL AND THE PULPIT
  • 27 HARTS OF THE WEST: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CLINT
  • 28 THEN CAME SAM! FROM PAPPY TO PECKINPAH
  • 29 COUNT NO MAN LUCKY UNTIL HIS DEATH: THE WESTERN AS AMERICAN TRAGEDY
  • 30 BORN AGAIN: OF COWBOYS, CHRISTIANITY, AND CONVERSION
  • CONCLUSION. NO COUNTRY FOR BOLD MEN: THE WESTERN FILM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF FILMS AND SHOWS
  • GENERAL INDEX

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