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Author Carter, Matthew (Teacher)

Title Myth of the western : new perspectives on Hollywood's frontier narrative / Matthew Carter.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 246 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West? This book re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions. Taking a number of critical-theoretical and philosophical approaches, Matthew Carter applies them to prominent forms of frontier historiography. He also considers the historiographic element of the Western by exploring the different ways in which the genre has responded to the issues raised by the frontier. Carter skilfully argues that the genre has and continues to reveal the complexities and contradictions at the heart of US society. With its clear analyses of and intellectual challenges to the film scholarship that has developed around the Western over a sixty-five year period, this book adds new depth to our understanding of specific film texts and of the genre as a whole.
Contents Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; 1. A GOOD MAN WITH A GUN; 2. A FINE GOOD PLACE TO BE; 3. RETHINKING REVISIONISM; PART TWO; 4. WHAT COUNTS AS HISTORY AND WHOSE HISTORY IS IT?; 5. ACTORS TRANSCENDING THE DARKNESS; CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Western films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Western films.
United States.
Myth -- Social aspects -- United States.
Myth.
Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Carter, Matthew (Teacher). Myth of the western 9780748685585 (OCoLC)880787198
ISBN 9780748685592 (electronic book)
0748685596 (electronic book)
9780748685585
0748685588