The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in the Hollywood Western
- ISBN-10
- 1860640400
- ISBN-13
- 9781860640407
- Category
- Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-12-31
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Author
- Michael Coyne
Description
This text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from Stagecoach and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s. The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, increasing individual social alienation, and explains why a celebratory genre veered, during a generation of unprecedented power and prosperity, from sagas of national achievement to bleak, virtually asocial visions of life in the United States.
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