Western and Political Thought

A Fistful of Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The Western and Political Thought: A Fistful of Politics offers a variety of engaging and entertaining answers to the question: What do Westerns have to do with politics? This collection features contributions from scholars in a variety of fields—political science, English, communication studies, and others—that explore the connections between Westerns (prose fiction, films, television series, and more) and politics.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-06-18
Mått148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt433 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor231
Upplaga2023
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031272837

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Introduction:Thus in the beginning all the World was America.- Part I: Foundings, Law, Lawlessness, and John Ford.- Chapter 1. Virtue, Tyranny, and Political Rule in David Milch's Deadwood.- Chapter 2. Print the Legend: Violence, Virtue, and the Social Contract in Hang 'Em High and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.- Chapter 3. John Ford's Legendary Western Ambiguity and White Settler Colonialism.- Chapter 4. This is Our Town': Political Community in High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.- Part II: The Western as Mirror and Teacher.- Chapter 5. Simmering Madness: Mob Justice and The Ox-Bow Incident.- Chapter 6. The Loner on the 'Frontier of Unfilled Hopes and Unfilled Threats': Serling's Old West in Kennedy's New Frontier.- Chapter 7. No Man's Land: Film Cycles, Femininity, and Female Empowerment in the Modern Western.- Chapter 8. Horse Operas Talk Back: History, Memory, and the Black Cowboy Performing.- Chapter 9. Aristophanes in Spurs: Blazing Saddles, Attic Comedy, HBO, and the Politics of Democratic Laughter.- Part III: The Adaptable, International West.- Chapter 10. Towards Assimilationist Politics on the Filmic Frontier: Mid-Twentieth Century Westerns in Australia.- Chapter 11.Ideological Uses of the Western in Film Depictions of Post-War Polish Borderlands.- Chapter 12.Magnificent Strangers: Violence and Difference.