LEADER 04105nam 2200577 450 001 9910453146903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4438-5334-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001128024 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25702782 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001164693 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11628186 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001164693 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11182809 035 $a(PQKB)11562864 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1477555 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1477555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10778126 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL528658 035 $a(OCoLC)859833704 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001128024 100 $a20131108d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNew Wests and post-Wests $eliterature and film of the American West /$fedited by Paul Varner 205 $a1. 210 1$aNewcastle upon Tyne, UK :$cCambridge Scholars Publishing,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4438-4964-2 311 $a1-299-97407-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $apart I. Literature and film of the American West -- part II. Issues of the literature and film of the American West. 330 8 $aThe writers of these chapters are often working with changing assumptions about literary and media interpretations of an American West. Here we see critical approaches to a West that never was, a West of myth so enduring that the myth dominates nearly all artistic representation about this place that never was. In this collection, we see critical approaches to a New West, a West that is a state of mind, not a geographical place but a mythic space with no boundaries and no political inevitabilities. These New Western studies accept the idea of a West that includes Canada, Mexico, Alaska, and, in the case of the US, every geographic and historical point west of the historic founding settlements. The West we study today is a post-West, an idea of the West past the traditional views of an old West dominated by white US nationalism and gendered as uncompromisingly masculine. The idea itself of a single West no longer holds validity. We now understand that all renderings of the West are renderings of multiple Wests; Wests constructed by American nationalists, Wests constructed by EuroAmerican writers and filmmakers, Wests constructed by native peoples, or Wests constructed outside the geographical boundaries of the US. - - This collection presents an eclectic array of new scholarship ranging freely over the New Wests and Post Wests, dealing with issues such as the literature of a 1950's California West; eco-crime genre fiction; the West of Edward Dorn and the Beat Movement; images of prostitution in California Gold Rush literature; European perspectives on film representations of the first peoples; the six shooter and the American West; German Westerns and Italian Westerns; The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, by Charles Neider; and films such as The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Into the Wild, There Will Be Blood, and The Last Picture Show. - - A unique aspect of this collection is the range of writers interpreting the American West in film and literature; besides those writing from within the United States, five of the writers provide international perspectives from the United Kingdom, and the Universities of Tunis, Vienna, and Rome. - - Each chapter includes a review of scholarship on its subject and an extended bibliography for further research. - 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMotion pictures$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 676 $a288 701 $aVarner$b Paul$0929043 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453146903321 996 $aNew Wests and post-Wests$92447286 997 $aUNINA