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Hollywood westerns and American myth [[electronic resource] ] : the importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for political philosophy / / Robert B. Pippin



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Autore: Pippin Robert B. <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Hollywood westerns and American myth [[electronic resource] ] : the importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for political philosophy / / Robert B. Pippin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 791.43/6278
Soggetto topico: Western films - History and criticism
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures
Politics in motion pictures
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 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.
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Hollywood westerns and American myth  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-14578-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453149803321
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