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. The Western 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 aimes of recent westerns like Posse, Lone Star, and Dead Man, and how the genre addresses key issues of biography, authenticity, race, and representation. Peter J. Bloom, Corey K. Creekmur, Claudia Gorbman, Kathryn Kalinak, Joy S. Kasson, Alexandra Keller, Tomas F. Sandoval, Jr, William G. Simon, Louise Spence, Melinda Szaloky
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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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As historian Richard Slotkin has noted, the relation between myth and genre is one of content and form.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traumatic westerns, captivity sequences, good badman, blackface dialect, blackface minstrel songs, musical stereotypes, frontier songs, familial succession, western film genre, louise spence, buffalo bill, modal melody, fatal environment, historiographic metafiction, frontier myth, western genre, genre criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sitting Bull, New York, African Americans, Native American, United States, John Ford, Richard Slotkin, Broken Arrow, Dynamite Moh, Buddy Deeds, Charley Wade, Frederick Jackson Turner, Bill Blake, Dynamite Jack, American West, Richard White, Wyatt Earp, Indian War Pictures, White Outlaw, William Blake, Annie Oakley, Hayden White, Manifest Destiny, Edward Buscombe, North Africa New!
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As historian Richard Slotkin has noted, the relation between myth and genre is one of content and form.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traumatic westerns, captivity sequences, good badman, blackface dialect, blackface minstrel songs, musical stereotypes, frontier songs, familial succession, western film genre, louise spence, buffalo bill, modal melody, fatal environment, historiographic metafiction, frontier myth, western genre, genre criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sitting Bull, New York, African Americans, Native American, United States, John Ford, Richard Slotkin, Broken Arrow, Dynamite Moh, Buddy Deeds, Charley Wade, Frederick Jackson Turner, Bill Blake, Dynamite Jack, American West, Richard White, Wyatt Earp, Indian War Pictures, White Outlaw, William Blake, Annie Oakley, Hayden White, Manifest Destiny, Edward Buscombe, North Africa New!
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- The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Elliott West on 9 pages
- Buffalo Bill (Graded Readers) by P. Hill on 7 pages
- The Western Reader by Gregg Rickman on 6 pages
- The Book of Westerns by Ian Alexander Cameron on 6 pages
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- Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History by Peter C. Rollins on 6 pages
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- Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies by Paul Allatson in Back Matter
- Landscape and Film (AFI Film Readers) by Martin Lefebvre on page 123
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