A Fistful of Icons

A Fistful of Icons
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781476629438
ISBN-13 : 1476629439
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Book Synopsis A Fistful of Icons by : Sue Matheson

Download or read book A Fistful of Icons written by Sue Matheson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States. And Western archetypes remain as important emblems of the American experience, relating a complex and coded narrative about heroism and morality, masculinity and femininity, westward expansion and technological progress, and assimilation and settlement. In this collection of new essays, 21 contributors from around the globe examine the "cowboy cool" iconography of film and television Westerns--from bounty hunters in buckskin jackets to denizens of seedy saloons and lonely deserts, from Cecil B. DeMille and John Ford to Steve McQueen and Budd Boetticher, Jr.


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