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From Shane to Kill Bill de Patrick Mcgee

From Shane to Kill Bill

Autor Patrick Mcgee
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 apr 2006
From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film.
  • Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre
  • Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present
  • Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires
  • Deepens an audience's understanding of the genre's most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill
  • Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405139649
ISBN-10: 1405139641
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

undergraduate and graduate students in courses on American Film and the American Western; general readers interested in American Western films

Notă biografică

Patrick McGee is emeritus professor from Louisiana State University, where he taught modern literature, film, and critical theory. He is the author of ten previous books, including Archival Resurrections, book one of Comedy, and Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce. He currently lives in Seattle.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations. Preface.
1. Why Shane Never Comes Back.
Alan Ladd's Face.
What Shane Wants.
Why Shane Wears a Blue Collar.
Why Shane's Gun Sounds Like an Atom Bomb.
2. The Political Origin of the Western.
Owen Wister Went West.
The West Went to Hollywood.
Marx Goes West.
3. Crossing the Border.
Jefferson's Double-Cross (Stagecoach and Destry Rides Again).
The Virginian Crossed Out (The Westerner).
4. Revolutionary Hysteria.
The Hysterical Fascist Killer (Duel in the Sun).
Notorious Ladies (Johnny Guitar and The Quick and.
the Dead).
5. Bad Fathers Make Good Sons.
Shoot the Father (My Darling Clementine).
Don't Shoot the Father (Red River).
Forget the Father (The Searchers).
6. Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
The Gunfighter and the Proletariat.
The Man Who Did Not Corrupt Hadleyville (High Noon).
The Men Who Save John Wayne (Rio Bravo).
The Man Who Shot John Wayne (The Man Who Shot Liberty.
Valance).
7. Magnificent Corpses.
Redemption through Destruction.
The Winners Are the Losers (The Magnificent Seven).
Only Death Will Do (The Wild Bunch).
8. Death's Landscape.
The Uses of the Dead.
Two Kinds of Men (The Dollars Trilogy).
Get Out of the Way (Once Upon a Time in the West and.
A Fistful of Dynamite).
Transcendence on a Pale Horse (The Eastwood Westerns).
9. Western Armageddon.
All Men Are Poets (McCabe and Mrs. Miller).
The Multitude at Heaven's Gate (Heaven's Gate).
Conclusion: Kill Bill, or Why Shane Always Comes Back.
References.
Index

Descriere

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film.