Westerns

Films through History

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Edited by Janet Walker

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Western

Keywords

western

Publishing date

2001

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

AFI Film Readers

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 272 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-415-92424-3
978-0-415-92424-5

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Book Presentation:
The cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre. In Westerns , leading scholars unpack the ways in which the form has embellished, mythologized, and erased past events. Contributors explore the mythic Wild West envisioned by Buffalo Bill Cody, the revisionist aims of recent westerns like Posse, Lone Star, and Dead Man , and how the genre addresses key issues of biography, authenticity, race, and representation. Included is an introduction by Janet Walker.

About the Author:
Janet Walker is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Couching Resistance: Women, Film and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry and co-editor of Feminism and Documentary.

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