Westerns (eBook, ePUB)

The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection
Redaktion: Edgerton, Gary R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and television to explore questions of national identity and purpose. Westerns: The Essential Collection comprises the Journal of Popular Film and Television's rich and longstanding legacy of scholarship on Westerns with a new special issue devoted exclusively to the genre. This collection examines and analyzes the evolution and significance of the screen Western from its earliest beginnings to its current global reach and relevance in the 21st century.

Westerns: The Essential Collection addresses the rise, fall and durability of the genre, and examines its preoccupation with multicultural matters in its organizational structure. Containing eighteen essays published between 1972 and 2011, this seminal work is divided into six sections covering Silent Westerns, Classic Westerns, Race and Westerns, Gender and Westerns, Revisionist Westerns and Westerns in Global Context. A wide range of international contributors offer original critical perspectives on the intricate relationship between American culture and Western films and television series. Westerns: The Essential Collection places the genre squarely within the broader aesthetic, socio-historical, cultural and political dimensions of life in the United States as well as internationally, where the Western has been reinvigorated and reinvented many times. This groundbreaking anthology illustrates how Western films and television series have been used to define the present and discover the future by looking backwards at America's imagined past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135765156
• Artikelnr.: 39909638

Autorenporträt

Gary R. Edgerton is Eminent Scholar, Professor and Chair of the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Old Dominion University, USA. He has published nine books, more than 75 book chapters, journal articles, and encyclopedia entries on a wide assortment of media and culture topics, and has served as co-editor of the Journal of Popular Film and Television since 1998. Michael T. Marsden is Professor of English, American Studies and Media Studies and Dean of the College and Academic Vice President Emeritus at St. Norbert College, USA. He is also Professor Emeritus of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, USA. One of the founding faculty members of the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, he has co-edited ten volumes, written scores of scholarly articles on a wide range of topics within Popular Culture Studies and American Culture Studies, and was one of the founding editors of the Journal of Popular Film and Television almost four decades ago.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Legacy of
Western Scholarship Part I: Silent Westerns Chapter 1. The Earliest Western
Films: A Checklist of Pre-1900 Prototype Western Films in the Library of
Congress Paper Print Collection Chapter 2. 'The Cross-Heart People': Race
and Inheritance in the Silent Westerns Chapter 3. 'Arizona Jim': The
Westerns of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Part II: Classic Westerns Chapter 4.
Soldiers in Stetsons: B-Westerns Go to War Chapter 5. 'Be Sure You're
Right, Then Go Ahead': The Early Disney Westerns Chapter 6. 'Let's Go Home,
Debbie': The Matter of Blood Pollution, Combat Culture, and Cold War
Hysteria in 'The Searchers' (1956) Part III: Race and Westerns Chapter 7.
Playing at Being Indian: Spectatorship and the Early Western Chapter 8. A
Fate Worse Than Death: Racism, Transgression, and Westerns Chapter 9. A
Politically Correct Ethan Edwards: Clint Eastwood's 'The Outlaw Josey
Wales' (1976) Part IV: Gender and Westerns Chapter 10. Howard Hughes and
His Western: 'The Maverick and The Outlaw' (1943) Chapter 11. Carrying
Concealed Weapons: Gendered Makeover in 'Calamity Jane' (1953) Chapter 12.
Redesigning Pocahontas: Disney, the 'White Man's Indian', and the Marketing
of Dreams Part V: Revisionist Westerns Chapter 13. 'McCabe and Mrs. Miller'
(1971): Robert Altman's Anti-Western Chapter 14. Blending Genres, Bending
Time: Steampunk of the Western Frontier Chapter 15. 'Deadwood' (2004-2006),
Generic Transformation, and Televisual History Part VI: Westerns in Global
Context Chapter 16. Shouldering the Weight of the World: The Sensational
and Global Appeal of John Wayne's Body Chapter 17. 'The Man With No Name'
(1968): Shane Comes Back in a Korean 'Manchurian Western' Chapter 18.
Hollywood Border Cinema: Westerns with a Vengeance Selected Bibliography of
Westerns on Film and Television