03290nam 2200685Ia 450 991078445740332120230721025828.01-280-76245-497866107624530-7486-2944-010.1515/9780748629442(CKB)1000000000351173(EBL)286992(OCoLC)476039630(SSID)ssj0000356566(PQKBManifestationID)11266175(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356566(PQKBWorkID)10350141(PQKB)10970331(SSID)ssj0000102498(PQKBManifestationID)11113755(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102498(PQKBWorkID)10060036(PQKB)11781761(MiAaPQ)EBC286992(Au-PeEL)EBL286992(CaPaEBR)ebr10435281(CaONFJC)MIL76245(DE-B1597)615528(DE-B1597)9780748629442(EXLCZ)99100000000035117320070321d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe American Western[electronic resource] /Stephen McVeighEdinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20071 online resource (249 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-2140-7 0-7486-2141-5 Includes bibliography (p. 221-232) and index.Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The American West in the 1890's – a Pivotal Decade; Chapter 2: Founding Western History: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner; Chapter 3: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Codification of the Western; Chapter 4: Western Literature from The Virginian to Shane; Chapter 5: Western Film from Silent to Noir; Chapter 6: The Western and the Cold War: the Gunfighter, Heroic Leadership and Political Culture; Chapter 7: New Western Perspectives: History and Literature; Chapter 8: The Western and Political Culture, 1960–1992: Revisions of ShaneChapter 9: Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western Bibliography; Web References; Index;This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century. Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely American form. The author argues that America's frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American meta-narrative that came to underpin much of the 'American century'. He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbolsWestern storiesHistory and criticismWestern filmsHistory and criticismWestern storiesHistory and criticism.Western filmsHistory and criticism.813.087409McVeigh Stephen1525481MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784457403321The American Western3766900UNINA