The American Western /

The American Western / / Stephen McVeigh.

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This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century.Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely Amer...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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McVeigh, Stephen,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2007
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The American West in the 1890s - a Pivotal Decade
  • 2. Founding Western History: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner
  • 3. Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Codification of the Western
  • 4. Western Literature from The Virginian to Shane
  • 5. Western Film from Silent to Noir
  • 6. The Western and the Cold War: the Gunfighter, Heroic Leadership and Political Culture
  • 7. New Western Perspectives: History and Literature
  • 8. The Western and Political Culture, 1960-1992: Revisions of Shane
  • 9. Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western
  • Bibliography
  • Web References
  • Index

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