Autore	McVeigh Stephen
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina	813.087409
Soggetto topico	Western stories - History and criticism Western films - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-76245-4 9786610762453 0-7486-2944-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; 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 Chapter 9: Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western Bibliography; Web References; Index;
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457313403321

Autore	McVeigh Stephen
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina	813.087409
Soggetto topico	Western stories - History and criticism Western films - History and criticism
ISBN	9786610762453 9781280762451 1280762454 9780748629442 0748629440
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; 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 Chapter 9: Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western Bibliography; Web References; Index;
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910966702603321

Autore	Tompkins Jane P
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993, c1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xi, 245 p. ) : ill., ports
Disciplina	813.087409
Collana	Oxford paperbacks
Soggetto topico	Western stories - History and criticism Western films - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
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	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450424703321

Autore	Picariello Damien K
Edizione	[1st ed. 2023.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (233 pages)
Disciplina	320.01 813.087409
Soggetto topico	Political science Film genres Popular culture Motion pictures, American Fiction Political Theory Genre Studies Popular Culture American Film and TV Fiction Literature
ISBN	9783031272844 3031272846
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction:Thus in the beginning all the World was America -- Part I: Foundings, Law, Lawlessness, and John Ford -- Chapter 1. Virtue, Tyranny, and Political Rule in David Milch's Deadwood -- Chapter 2. Print the Legend: Violence, Virtue, and the Social Contract in Hang 'Em High and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance -- Chapter 3. John Ford's Legendary Western Ambiguity and White Settler Colonialism -- Chapter 4. This is Our Town': Political Community in High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance -- Part II: The Western as Mirror and Teacher -- Chapter 5. Simmering Madness: Mob Justice and The Ox-Bow Incident -- Chapter 6. The Loner on the 'Frontier of Unfilled Hopes and Unfilled Threats': Serling's Old West in Kennedy's New Frontier -- Chapter 7. No Man's Land: Film Cycles, Femininity, and Female Empowerment in the Modern Western -- Chapter 8. Horse Operas Talk Back: History, Memory, and the Black Cowboy Performing -- Chapter 9. Aristophanes in Spurs: Blazing Saddles, Attic Comedy, HBO, and the Politics of Democratic Laughter -- Part III: The Adaptable, International West -- Chapter 10. Towards Assimilationist Politics on the Filmic Frontier: Mid-Twentieth Century Westerns in Australia -- Chapter 11.Ideological Uses of the Western in Film Depictions of Post-War Polish Borderlands -- Chapter 12.Magnificent Strangers: Violence and Difference.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910731488703321

Autore	Lamont Victoria
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (210 p.)
Disciplina	813.087409
Collana	Postwestern Horizons
Soggetto topico	Western stories - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8032-9033-0 0-8032-9031-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power; 2. Domestic Politics and Cattle Rustling; 3. Women's Westerns and the Myth of the Pseudonym; 4. Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western; 5. Cattle Branding and the Traffic in Women; 6. The Masculinization of the Western; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465288803321