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Dream West : politics and religion in cowboy movies / Douglas Brode.
| Author/creator | Brode, Douglas, 1943- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013. |
| Description | ix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; number 41 Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 41. ^A446180 |
| Contents | Introduction : "Code of the West" : politics, religion and popular culture -- Part one. Cowboy politics : Roosevelt through Reagan -- To die in the west : the O.K. Corral, history versus film -- Sheriff of Cochise : thirty seconds to eternity -- Red, white and blue states : political philosophy in nineteenth-century America -- "From my cold, dead hands" : gun control in the West and westerns -- Way of the gun : violence in American life -- It's a man's world? : gender politics on Hollywood's frontier -- Go west, young (business) man : American dreamers, political schemers -- Redistributing the wealth : Gene Autry, Frank Capra, and the New Deal western -- Don't fence me in : rugged individualism and open range -- Silent springs, vanishing prairies : environmentalism and the western -- Red states, Red menace : of cowboys and Communism -- Once upon a time in a revolution : radical politics and the western film -- Viva Juárez! Viva Villa! Viva Zapata! : the biographical western as political allegory -- All the right stuff : the world according to John Wayne -- Flag-waving on the wild frontier : stars and stripes as political ideology -- Part two. God's country : religion in the western film -- Odes to American imperialism : Manifest Destiny in western movies -- The town and the city : space as theme, place as character -- Glory in the (wild) flower : romanticism on the open range -- Hearts of darkness, souls of light : visions of nature in American film and fiction -- A chapel in the canyon : religiosity, American-style -- Multiculturalism, Mormanism, and movies : Hollywood's history and cultural appropriation -- End of the trail : the dark side of faith -- Ride out for vengeance : revising a western paradigm -- Old Testament and New : days of wrath, angels of mercy -- The church and the saloon : Catholic versus Protestant westerns -- Onward, Christian soldiers : the pistol and the pulpit -- Harts of the west : the gospel according to Clint -- Then came Sam! : from Pappy to Peckinpah -- Count no man lucky until his death : the western as American tragedy -- Born again : of cowboys, Christianity, and conversion -- Conclusion : no country for bold men : the western film in the twenty-first century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of films and shows -- General index. |
| Abstract | "Overturns conventional thinking that the Western genre is essentially conservative. Instead, Brode demonstrates that Hollywood liberals used Westerns to espouse a progressive agenda on a range of issues, including gun control, environmental protection, respect for non-Christian belief systems, and community cohesion versus rugged individualism. Doug Brode takes a new look at dozens of Westerns, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Red River, 3:10 to Yuma (old and new), The Wild Ones, High Noon, My Darling Clementine, The Alamo, and No Country for Old Men"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-363) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2012049808 |
| ISBN | 9780292709027 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0292709021 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780292748286 (softcover) |
| ISBN | 0292748280 (softcover) |
| Other class# | Z UA380.8 B784dr |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1995.9 .W4 B76 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |