03171nam 22006015 450 991048469170332120251030103739.09781137546715113754671910.1057/978-1-137-54671-5(CKB)4100000010946261(MiAaPQ)EBC6162738(DE-He213)978-1-137-54671-5(Perlego)3481598(MiAaPQ)EBC6162751(EXLCZ)99410000001094626120200405d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Afterlife of the Hollywood Western /by Pete Falconer1st ed. 2020.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (227 pages)9781137546708 1137546700 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The rhetoric of genre -- Chapter 3: “Fixing” the Western -- Chapter 4: The Wild West and the Dirty South, or, by their teeth ye shall know them -- Chapter 5: Once upon a time -- Chapter 6: Old men and old movies -- Chapter 7: The Western’s greatest hits -- Chapter 8: Hybrids and transpositions.This book examines the Western genre in the period since Westerns ceased to be a regular feature of Hollywood filmmaking. For most of the 20th Century, the Western was a major American genre. The production of Westerns decreased in the 1960s and 1970s; by the 1980s, it was apparent that the genre occupied a less prominent position in popular culture. After an extended period as one of the most prolific Hollywood genres, the Western entered its “afterlife”. What does it now mean for a Hollywood movie to be a Western, and how does this compare to the ways in which the genre has been understood at other points in its history? This book considers the conditions in which the Western has found itself since the 1980s, the latter-day associations that the genre has acquired and the strategies that more recent Westerns have developed in response to their changed context. Pete Falconer is a lecturer in Film at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published work on the forms and genres of popular cinema (particularly Westerns, but also horror movies and on other aspects of popular culture, including country music).Motion picturesHistoryFilm genresEthnologyAmericaCultureFilm and TV HistoryGenre StudiesAmerican CultureMotion picturesHistory.Film genres.EthnologyCulture.Film and TV History.Genre Studies.American Culture.791.436278Falconer Peteauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1228233MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484691703321The Afterlife of the Hollywood Western2851385UNINA