Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-406) and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : big hats, horses, and dust : the visible and invisible West -- Dead westerns : the posthumous and the post-western -- Mourning in America : The lusty men (1952) and Bad day at Black Rock (1954) -- "You and your god's country" : The misfits (1961) -- "We keep heading west" : Dennis Hopper adn the post-western -- Exile and dislocation in the urban post-western : The exiles (1961) and Fat city (1972) -- Post-western genealogies : John Sayles's Lone star (1996) and Silver city (2004) -- "Opened from the inside out" : Wim Wenders's Don't come knocking (2005) -- The idioms of living : Donna Deitch and Allison Anders -- The schizo-west : Down in the valley (2005) -- Spook country : the pensive west of No country for old men (2007) -- Conclusion : is there a politics fo the post-western? -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
"A study of post-1945 contemporary Western films within the social and cultural context of western studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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