Cowboy Classics : : The Roots of the American Western in the Epic Tradition / / Kirsten Day.
Compares the ancient epic and the American Western as parallel cultural narrativesCowboy Classics looks at the remarkably intimate connection between Westerns and Greek and Roman epics, each of which focuses on a mythic-historical period from the past where our societal notions of what constitutes h...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Screening Antiquity : SCAN
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Prologue
- Introduction: Western Film and the Epic Tradition
- 1 Howard Hawks's Red River
- 2 Fred Zinnemann's High Noon
- 3 George Stevens's Shane
- 4 John Ford's The Searchers
- 5 John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index