From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western (New Approaches to Film Genre)
McGee, Patrick
ISBN 10: 140513965X ISBN 13: 9781405139656
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
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From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film.
- Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre
- Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present
- Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires
- Deepens an audience's understanding of the genre's most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill
- Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.
About the Author: Patrick McGee is Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture (1997) and Joyce Beyond Marx: History and Desire in 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake' (2001).
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Title: From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the ...
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good