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Introduction: The American western, 1990-2010 / Andrew Patrick Nelson -- Pt. 1. Old West, New Stories -- Dances with wolves: romantic reconstruction, historical reality, or both? / Michael T. arsden -- Revisionism 2.0? the Hollywood Western in the 1990s / Andrew Patrick Nelson -- Tomorrow the green grass: Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / Adrian Danks -- \"One way or other, there's going to be justice\": Rethinking HBO, Deadwood and the Western, 1984- 2010 / Gareth James -- Murder ballad: the assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Stephen Gaunson -- The professional Western revived: southern diaspora, frontier heteroglossia and audience nostalgia in True Grit (2010) / Sue Matheson -- Pt. 2 New Wests, old stories -- No country for old men and There will be blood: classical western values eclipsed by modern capitalism / William C. Siska -- Hi-ho, cyborg! savages, cyborgs and gender on the science fiction frontier / Sarah Banschbach -- Osama bin Laden ain't here: Justifiedáas a 9/11 Western / Paul Zinder -- Pure country pure strait: the myth of the Texas cowboy / Melynda Seaton -- \"I'm just a cowboy\": transnational identities of the Border Country in The three burials of Melquiades Estrada / Matthew Carter
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Stagecoach to tombstone : the filmgoers' guide to the great westerns
The author explores the western, running from John Ford's 'Stagecoach' to the revisionary 'Tombstone'. He explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history.
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The North American West in the Twenty-First Century
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the
generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly
uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In
the late twentieth century, \"new western\" historians dissected the
mythologized western histories that Turner and others had long used
to embody American triumph and progress. While Turner's frontier is
no more, the West continues to present America with challenging
processes to wrestle, navigate, and overcome. The North
American West in the Twenty-First Century , edited by Brenden
W. Rensink, takes stories of the late twentieth-century \"modern
West\" and carefully pulls them toward the present-explicitly
tracing continuity with or unexpected divergence from trajectories
established in the 1980s and 1990s. Considering a broad range of
topics, including environment, Indigenous peoples, geography,
migration, and politics, these essays straddle multiple modern
frontiers, not least of which is the temporal frontier between our
unsettled past and uncertain future. These forays into the
twenty-first-century West will inspire more scholars to pull
histories to the present and by doing so reinsert scholarly
findings into contemporary public awareness.
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The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship and the state
\"In an obscure paragraph of a package of immigration reforms adopted in 1996, the United States government committed itself to developing \"an automated system to track the entry and exit of all non-citizens, thus providing a way of identifying immigrants who stay longer than their visas allow.\" At the time that the legislation was supposed to be put into effect, however, some in the government came to regard this measure as likely to cause undue complications for millions of border- crossers, and the implementation of the law was postponed for two and a half years\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Western
The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has been understood in film criticism. Until the 1980s, more Westerns were made than any other type of film. For fifty of those years, the genre was central to Hollywood's popularity and profitability. The Western explores the reasons for its success and its latter-day decline among film-makers and audiences alike.
Part I charts the history of the Western film and its role in film studies. Part II traces the origins of the Western in nineteenth-century America, and in its literary, theatrical and visual imagining. This sets the scene to explore the many evolving forms in successive chapters on early silent Westerns, the series Western, the epic, the romance, the dystopian, the elegiac and, finally, the revisionist Western. The Western concludes with an extensive bibliography, filmography and select further reading.
Over 200 Westerns are discussed, among them close accounts of classics such as Duel in the Sun , The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven , formative titles like John Ford's epic The Iron Horse , and early cowboy star William S. Hart's The Silent One together with less familiar titles that deserve wider recognition, including Comanche Station , Pursued and Ulzana's Raid .
1. The Western as an Imaginary Space 2. The Western in Film and Cultural Studies 3. Where the Western Came From: The Antecedents of the Western Film 4.The Frontier Melodrama and the Silent Film 5. Series Westerns and Juvenile Drama 6.The Epic Western and the Founding of America 7. Romance Westerns and the Meaning of the Frontier 8. The Dystopian Western 9. Elegiac Westerns and the Death of the West 10. The Revisionist Western Further Reading Bibliography Index
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Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900-1950
This book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1900 and 1950 and argues that western pictorialist photographers were regionalists that had their roots in the formidable photographic heritage of the nineteenth-century American West.
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Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge
Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge delves into how the Cold War, as a global phenomenon, shaped local conditions and decisions for science in light of US-Europe relationships. The articles in this volume, edited by Jeroen van Dongen, show how the western network in which science was circulated and produced was strongly conditioned by the state and its international relations. The workings of secrecy, the consequences of US hegemony and decolonization, and the ambitions of post-war recovery attempts were all mediated through the interference of the state and through its relative position in the network. At the same time, hubristic expectations prefigured in the state's relation to science.
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