LEADER 03287nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910820006903321 005 20240410135041.0 010 $a1-280-76245-4 010 $a9786610762453 010 $a0-7486-2944-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748629442 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351173 035 $a(EBL)286992 035 $a(OCoLC)476039630 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000356566 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11266175 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356566 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10350141 035 $a(PQKB)10970331 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102498 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11113755 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102498 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10060036 035 $a(PQKB)11781761 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC286992 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL286992 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10435281 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL76245 035 $a(DE-B1597)615528 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748629442 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351173 100 $a20070321d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe American Western /$fStephen McVeigh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-2140-7 311 $a0-7486-2141-5 320 $aIncludes bibliography (p. 221-232) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Shane 327 $aChapter 9: Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western Bibliography; Web References; Index; 330 $aThis 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 symbols 606 $aWestern stories$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWestern films$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aWestern stories$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWestern films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.087409 700 $aMcVeigh$b Stephen$01625521 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820006903321 996 $aThe American Western$94063420 997 $aUNINA