The Crowded Prairie : American National Identity in the Hollywood Western Paperback / softback
by Michael Coyne
Part of the Cinema and Society series
Paperback / softback
Description
This text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s.
The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, increasing individual social alienation, and explains why a celebratory genre veered, during a generation of unprecedented power and prosperity, from sagas of national achievement to bleak, virtually asocial visions of life in the United States.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, 16 b&w illustrations, filmography, bibliography, index
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:31/12/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9781860642593
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, 16 b&w illustrations, filmography, bibliography, index
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:31/12/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9781860642593
