Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails
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Hardcover. This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre. Editor(s): Matheson, Sue. Num Pages: 259 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre.
This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137272935
SKU
V9781137272935
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99-15
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LARA COX University of Exeter, UK DEBRA B. CUTSHAW University of Nevada, USA PETER FALCONER University of Warwick, UK ANDREA GAZZANIGA Northern Kentucky University, USA STELLA HOCKENHULL University of Wolverhampton, UK ZHENYA KIPERMAN Drexel University, USA and an award-winning filmmaker HELEN LEWIS Tufts University, USA CYNTHIA J. MILLER Kansas Humanities Council Scholar, Will Rogers Memorial, and Emerson College, USA ... Read more
Reviews for Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails
"As the essays in this volume demonstrate, it is love that truly conquered the American frontier. The cinematic West draws its life from tales of passion and heartbreak, sacrifice and betrayal. Matheson is to be congratulated on crafting a volume that illustrates the complexities of cowboy love - a force that, much like the railroad, tamed the wilderness but left ... Read more