West of everything [[electronic resource] ] : the inner life of westerns / / Jane Tompkins
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| Autore: |
Tompkins Jane P
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| Titolo: |
West of everything [[electronic resource] ] : the inner life of westerns / / Jane Tompkins
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993, c1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 245 p. ) : ill., ports |
| Disciplina: | 813.087409 |
| Soggetto topico: | Western stories - History and criticism |
| Western films - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) In literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Originally published: 1992. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Death -- Women and the language of men -- Landscape -- Horses -- Cattle -- Dry-gulched : a reckoning -- The Virginian : Wister's mother -- Zane Grey : writing the purple sage -- At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988 -- The last of the breed : homage to Louis L'Amour -- Two men. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and films of the Amercian west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time. She probes the main elements of the Western, revealing the view of reality and code of behavior these features contain. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | West of everything |
| ISBN: | 0-19-802371-5 |
| 1-280-65486-4 | |
| 1-4237-3826-8 | |
| 1-60129-925-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450424703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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