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题名/责任者:

Myth of the western : new perspectives on Hollywood's frontier narrative / Matthew Carter.

出版发行项:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

ISBN:

9780748685585 (hbk.)

载体形态项:

vii, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

个人责任者:

Carter, Matthew (Teacher)

论题主题:

Western films-United States-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Myth-Social aspects-United States.

中图法分类号:

J905.712

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-241) and index.

摘要附注:

What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West? This book re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions. Taking a number of critical-theoretical and philosophical approaches, Matthew Carter applies them to prominent forms of frontier historiography. He also considers the historiographic element of the Western by exploring the different ways in which the genre has responded to the issues raised by the frontier. Carter skilfully argues that the genre has and continues to reveal the complexities and contradictions at the heart of US society. With its clear analyses of and intellectual challenges to the film scholarship that has developed around the Western over a sixty-five year period, this book adds new depth to our understanding of specific film texts and of the genre as a whole.

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