LEADER 03641nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910453149803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-300-14578-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300145786 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104966 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049977 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000702843 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11416430 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000702843 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10687026 035 $a(PQKB)10660482 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420909 035 $a(DE-B1597)485249 035 $a(OCoLC)961583526 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300145786 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420909 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579308 035 $a(OCoLC)801194702 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104966 100 $a20090803d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHollywood westerns and American myth$b[electronic resource] $ethe importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for political philosophy /$fRobert B. Pippin 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 1 $aThe Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-14577-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Red River and the right to rule -- Who cares who shot Liberty Valance? : the heroic and the prosaic in The man who shot Liberty Valance -- Politics and self-knowledge in The searchers -- Conclusion. 330 $aIn this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' Red River and John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its "second founding," or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state's claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.Pippin's account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy. 410 0$aCastle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics. 606 $aWestern films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in motion pictures 606 $aPolitics in motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWestern films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in motion pictures. 615 0$aPolitics in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/6278 700 $aPippin$b Robert B.$f1948-$0304457 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453149803321 996 $aHollywood westerns and American myth$92125377 997 $aUNINA