The American Western / Stephen McVeigh.

Author/creator McVeigh, Stephen
Format Book
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionviii, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The American West in the 1890s--a pivotal decade -- Founding western history: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the codification of the western -- Western literature from The Virginian to Shane -- Western film from silent to noir -- The western and the Cold War: the gunfighter, heroic leadership and political culture -- New western perspectives: history and literature -- The western and political culture, 1960-1992: revisions of Shane -- Wanted dead or alive: 9/11 and the American western.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (p. 221-232) and index.
ISBN9780748621408 (cased)
ISBN0748621407 (cased)
ISBN0748621415 (pbk.)
ISBN9780748621415 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS 374.W4 M38 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold