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Westerns - Making the Man in Fiction and Film (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Westerns - Making the Man in Fiction and Film (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour,
and from classic films like Stagecoach to spaghetti Westerns like A
Fistful of Dollars, Mitchell shows how Westerns helped assuage a
series of crises in American culture. This landmark study shows
that the Western owes its perennial appeal not to unchanging
conventions but to the deftness with which it responds to the
obsessions and fears of its audience. And no obsession, Lee
Mitchell argues, has figured more prominently in the Western than
what it means to be a man. Elegantly written. . . . provocative . .
. characterized by [Mitchell's] own tendency to shoot from the
hip.--J. Hoberman, London Review of Books [Mitchell's] book would
be worth reading just for the way he relates Benjamin Spock's Baby
and Child to the postwar Western.--The Observer Integrating a
careful handling of historical context with a keen eye for textual
nuances, Mitchell reconstructs the Western's aesthetic tradition of
the 19th century.--Aaron M. Wehner, San Francisco Review
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