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The political, historical, and cultural forces that shaped the development of the Western film genre—especially the 30 years after World War II—are explored in this book. Addressing the treatment of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and children, the role of violence, the landscape, and poker playing, this cultural analysis advances the theory that most Westerns of those years can be put into four principal categories that reflect the styles and...
About the Author
Philip French has been the film critic for the Observer newspaper for more than 25 years. He was a member of the Cannes Festival jury in 1986 and a Booker Prize judge in 1988, and is the author of The Faber Book of Movie Verse, Malle on Malle, and The Movie Moguls .
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'Philip French's study 'Westerns' must be the definitive so far on that endlessly productive cinema genre.' Margaret Hinxman, The Sunday Telegrahph. 'Mr French has done a dazzling job...a generally brilliant and enterprising series of shots at rehabilitating and respectabilising the Western.' John Coleman, New Statesman. 'I envy Philip French his erudition - even more, the ease, style and wit with which he sustains it through his new book, 'Westerns'...Reading this...
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1857547470
- ISBN 13 9781857547474
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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