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04817aam a22005058i 4500 001 56E046B4BEE311E3B118CA8BDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140408010112 008 130207s2013 txua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2012049808 020 $a 9780292748286 (pbk.) 020 $a 0292748280 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780292709027 (hardback) 020 $a 0292709021 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)811591346 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d BDX $d IXA $d IKM $d MUU $d SDB $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1995.9.W4 $b B76 2013 082 00 $a 791.43/6278 $2 23 084 $a PER004030 $2 bisacsh 086 $a Z UA380.8 B784dr $2 txdocs 100 1 $a Brode, Douglas, $d 1943- 245 10 $a Dream West : $b politics and religion in cowboy movies / $c Douglas Brode. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Austin : $b University of Texas Press, $c 2013. 300 $a ix, 378 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; $v number 41 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-363) and indexes. 505 00 $t Once upon a time in a revolution : radical politics and the western film -- $g Part one. Cowboy politics : Roosevelt through Reagan -- $t To die in the west : the O.K. Corral, history versus film -- $t Sheriff of Cochise : thirty seconds to eternity -- $t Red, white and blue states : political philosophy in nineteenth-century America -- $t "From my cold, dead hands" : gun control in the West and westerns -- $t Way of the gun : violence in American life -- $t It's a man's world? : gender politics on Hollywood's frontier -- $t Go west, young (business) man : American dreamers, political schemers -- $t Redistributing the wealth : Gene Autry, Frank Capra, and the New Deal western -- $t Don't fence me in : rugged individualism and open range -- $t Silent springs, vanishing prairies : environmentalism and the western -- $t Red states, Red menace : of cowboys and Communism -- $t Once upon a time in a revolution : radical politics and the western film -- 505 00 $t The church and the saloon : Catholic versus Protestant westerns -- $t All the right stuff : the world according to John Wayne -- $t Flag-waving on the wild frontier : stars and stripes as political ideology -- $g Part two. God's country : religion in the western film -- $t Odes to American imperialism : Manifest Destiny in western movies -- $t The town and the city : space as theme, place as character -- $t Glory in the (wild) flower : romanticism on the open range -- $t Hearts of darkness, souls of light : visions of nature in American film and fiction -- $t A chapel in the canyon : religiosity, American-style -- $t Multiculturalism, Mormanism, and movies : Hollywood's history and cultural appropriation -- $t End of the trail : the dark side of faith -- $t Ride out for vengeance : revising a western paradigm -- $t Old Testament and New : days of wrath, angels of mercy -- $t The church and the saloon : Catholic versus Protestant westerns -- 505 00 $t General index. $t Harts of the west : the gospel according to Clint -- $t Then came Sam! : from Pappy to Peckinpah -- $t Count no man lucky until his death : the western as American tragedy -- $t Born again : of cowboys, Christianity, and conversion -- $t Conclusion : no country for bold men : the western film in the twenty-first century -- $t Notes -- $t Bibliography -- $t Index of films and shows -- $t General index. 520 $a "Overturns conventional thinking that the Western genre is essentially conservative. Instead, Brode demonstrates that Hollywood liberals used Westerns to espouse a progressive agenda on a range of issues, including gun control, environmental protection, respect for non-Christian belief systems, and community cohesion versus rugged individualism. Doug Brode takes a new look at dozens of Westerns, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Red River, 3:10 to Yuma (old and new), The Wild Ones, High Noon, My Darling Clementine, The Alamo, and No Country for Old Men"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Western films $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Politics in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Religion in motion pictures. 650 7 $a PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Politics in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896085 650 7 $a Religion in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093883 650 7 $a Western films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01174006 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; $v no. 41. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171226013334.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826092151.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=56E046B4BEE311E3B118CA8BDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search