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The Western Genre

From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey

by John Saunders

Type
Didactic
Subject
GenreWestern
Keywords
western
Publishing date
2001
Publisher
Wallflower Press
Collection
Short Cuts
Language
English
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Relative size
Physical desc.
Paperback • 144 pages
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
1-903364-12-4
978-1-903364-12-3
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Book Presentation:
The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey offers close readings of the definitive American film movement as represented by such leading exponents as John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Sam Peckinpah. In his consideration of such iconic motifs as the Outlaw Hero and the Lone Rider, John Saunders traces the development of perennial aspects of the genre, its continuity and, importantly, its change. Representations of morality and masculinity are also foregrounded in consideration of the genre's major stars John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, and such films as Shane, Rio Bravo, The Wild Bunch, and Unforgiven.

About the Author:
John Saunders is senior lecturer in film and literature at the University of Newcastle, UK.

See the publisher website: Wallflower Press

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