Format:
ix, 285 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781793615114
,
179361511X
Content:
Introduction: the twenty-first-century Western: to begin at the beginning... /Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode --An American genre in transition: Dead man as predecessor to the twenty-first-century Western /Ann Hetzel Gunkel --"Pardon me, but you 'i/Indian' is showing!: Native American images in twenty-first-century Westerns /Alan Lechusza Aquallo with Douglas Brode --Missing in the mountains: The Revenant ast twenty-first-century frontier hero /Nicholas Blower --Evolution of a postmodern genre: the Western films of Joel and Ethan Coen /Lynnea Chapman King --Rooster Cogburn revisited: triangulating True grit /Walter Metz --Westward ho! The women!: Frontier females in postfeminist films /Rosanne Welch with Doublas Brode --An American propensity: the continuum of violence in Western films /Nathan Wuertenberg --Once upon a time in Tarantino's West: persistence of the Western as an American fairy tale /Beth Jane Toren with Douglas Brode --Illusions of individuality: old frontiers and new forms in Meak's Cutoff (2010) and Certain women (2016)John Bruni --"Sheriff, you forgot your pants!": Brokeback Mountain and the genre's open secret /Jim Daems --The Bush Westerns: real cowboy movies for a faux cowboy presidency /Mark Brenden --Morality, wounding, and redemptive violence: literary and cinematic versions of 3:10 to Yuma /Fran Pheasant-Kelly --Of partners and posses: masculine camaraderie in modern Western/action filmsJason McEntee and Sharon Smith --The present in the past: the new Western history in twenty-first-century films /John Hajduk and Natalie Rosiek --"The mercy seat" as inescapable heat: ideas of justice in the Australian outback in The proposition /Henrik Bødker --A postmodern take on the classical journey: The three burials of Melquiades Estrada /Andrew Howe --Having a home, come Hell or high water!: the significance of space and place in the neo-Western /Sue Matheson --Music as meaning: twentieth-century Western movie music in twenty-first-century fantastical films /Erik Heine --Return of the tv western: an introduction and overview /Garret Castleberry with Douglas Brode --The Western didn't die, it just went off-world: Guardians of the galaxy and the final frontier /David S. Silverman with Douglas Brode.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793615121
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781793615121
Language:
English
Keywords:
Western
;
Geschichte 2000-2019
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Brode, Douglas 1943-
