| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 208 pages) : portraits. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Film and media studies
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Film + media studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century's most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. The first serious study of a body of films that was central to the youth of two generations, He Was Some Kind of a Man combines the author's childhood fascination with this genre with an interdisciplinary scholarly exploration of the films influ. |
| Contents |
Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Ride the High Country, or "They Went Thataway"; 2 Cowboy Codes: Straight and Pure and All Boy; 3 When We Were Young: Nostalgia and the Cowboy Hero; 4 Arms and the Man: The Friendly Gun; 5 Give Me My Boots and Saddles: Camp Cowboy; 6 Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range; 7 White Hats and White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy?; 8 Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, and Masculinity; 9 Corporate Cowboys and the Shaping of a Nation; Postscript: The Frontiersman (1938); List of Films Mentioned; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Masculinity in motion pictures.
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Masculinity in motion pictures. |
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Western films -- History and criticism.
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Western films. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Masculinities in the B western |
| Other Form: |
Print version: McGillis, Roderick. He was some kind of a man. Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2009 9781554580590 (OCoLC)647922177 |
| ISBN |
155458289X (electronic book) |
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9781554582891 (electronic book) |
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1554580595 (Trade Paper) |
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9781554580590 (Trade Paper) |
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9781554582891 |
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9781554580590 |
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