Westerns

Westerns
ISBN-10
1136855602
ISBN-13
9781136855603
Series
Westerns
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
217
Language
English
Published
2010-11-30
Publisher
Routledge
Author
John White

Description

This book discusses the evolution of the Western through history and looks at theoretical and critical approaches to Westerns such as genre analysis, semiotics, representation, ideology, discourse analysis, narrative, realism, auteur and star theory, psychoanalytical theory, postmodernism and audience response. The book includes case studies of eight key westerns: Stagecoach, My darling Clementine, Shane, The Good, the bad and the ugly, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Unforgiven, Brokeback mountain, The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. It also includes a chronology of significant events for the Western genre.

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