Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film
- ISBN-10
- 0226532356
- ISBN-13
- 9780226532356
- Series
- Westerns
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-05-08
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Lee Clark Mitchell
Description
A study of masculinity in westerns both in literature and in the cinema
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- 1996-11-15
- 331 pages
- Paperback
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