Cowboy Politics
Myths and Discourses in Popular Westerns from the Virginian to Unforgiven and Deadwood
The politics of popular westerns are surprising in substance and significance, especially of late. Cowboy Politics shows how westerns in literature, cinema, and television face the challenges of Western Civilization even more than the perils of American frontiers. Its strategy is to compare key westerns with major theories of modern and postmodern politics. So it analyzes novels from Owen Wister to Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry. It focuses on films from the western revival beginning in the 1990s and featuring Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, while its interest in TV stretches from singing cowboys and Gunsmoke to David Milch's Deadwood.Critics are…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4985-4947-9
- EAN: 9781498549479
- Produktnummer: 23940102
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 414 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.8 cm 786 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 786
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