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The Crowded Prairie American National Identity in the Hollywood Western

Paperback • 1998 • English • 1. edition

The Crowded Prairie American National Identity in the Hollywood Western

By Michael D. Coyne

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This text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s. The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, increasing individu...Show more

Adventure fiction: Westerns
Narrative theme: Politics
Narrative theme: Social issues

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ISBN

9781860642593

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published year

1998

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Crowded Prairie American National Identity in the Hollywood Western

Format

Paperback

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