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The Crowded Prairie
Michael Coyne
其他書名
American National Identity in the Hollywood Western
出版Bloomsbury Academic, 1997-12-31
主題Fiction / WesternsPerforming Arts / Film / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / History & CriticismPerforming Arts / Film / Genres / WesternsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / General
ISBN18606404009781860640407
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wHxZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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 individual social alienation, and explains why a celebratory genre veered, during a generation of unprecedented power and prosperity, from sagas of national achievement to bleak, virtually asocial visions of life in the United States.