Savages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns, Bob Herzberg
Автор: Lee Clark Mitchell Название: Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre ISBN: 1496201965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496201966 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6897.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle—with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre—maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach “post” to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily, defied generic patterns, the western continues to enthrall audiences. It does so by engaging narrative expectations stamped on our collective consciousness so firmly as to integrate materials that might not seem obviously “western” at all.
Through plot cues, narrative reminders, and even cinematic frameworks, recent films shape interpretive understanding by triggering a long-standing familiarity audiences have with the genre. Mitchell’s critical analysis reveals how these films engage a thematic and cinematic border-crossing in which their formal innovations and odd plots succeed deconstructively, encouraging by allusion, implication, and citation the evocation of generic meaning from ingredients that otherwise might be interpreted quite differently. Applying genre theory with close cinematic readings, Mitchell posits that the western has essentially been “post” all along.
Описание: This groundbreaking anthology 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. It 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.
Описание: From automatons to zombies, many fantastic elements have been cross-pollinated with the western genre. This second edition includes numerous new entries covering film, television, animation, dime novels, pulp fiction, comic books, novels, short stories and video and role-playing games. Categories include Weird, Science Fiction, Space, Steampunk, Romance and Weird Menace Westerns.
Автор: Powell Larry, Amsbary Jonathan H. Название: Becoming John Wayne: The Early Westerns of a Screen Icon, 1930-1939 ISBN: 1476664137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476664132 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores the early westerns of John Wayne, from his first starring role in the 1930 epic The Big Trail through his breakthrough role as the Ringo Kid in John Ford`s 1939 classic Stagecoach. This book argues that it was during these 1930s westerns that Marion Morrison transformed from a prop man into the John Wayne film persona that became world famous.
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