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From Shane To Kill Bill Hardback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by McGee, Patrick,
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- Title From Shane To Kill Bill
- Author McGee, Patrick,
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA
- Publication date 2006-05-05
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4153621
- ISBN 9781405139649 / 1405139641
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.48 x 0.81 in (23.62 x 16.46 x 2.06 cm)
- Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
- Library of Congress subjects Western films - United States - History and
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005032201
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
- Quantity available 5
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From the publisher
First line
The thing I remember most about seeing Shane as a boy is the face of Alan Ladd.
From the rear cover
Original and compelling, From Shane to Kill Bill rethinks what American Western film has to offer us as a genre. Westerns have succeeded in dramatizing the individual, defining the frontier myth, and promoting the limits of masculinity. In tracing the development of the Western from 1939 to the present, this entertaining book demonstrates that the genre is also a successful vehicle for articulating class resentments and the social contradictions in American culture.
Offering sensitive readings that extend and deepen our understanding of the American West - from Shane, Stagecoach, and The Searchers to Heaven's Gate, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill - this book discusses the Western in new and insightful ways. McGee appreciates the limits of this film genre, but also articulates its positive political value as an expression of social desires typically unspoken in American public discourse. Informative and compelling, this book suggests new understandings of this much-discussed genre.
