From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western (New Approaches to Film Genre)

McGee, Patrick

ISBN 10: 140513965X / ISBN 13: 9781405139656

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western (New Approaches to Film Genre)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140513965X
• ISBN 13: 9781405139656
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film.

• Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre
• Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present
• Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires
• Deepens an audience's understanding of the genre's most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill
• Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.

About the Author

Patrick McGee is Emeritus Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture (1997) and Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema (2012). His most recent work is a long poem, Comedy, Book 1: Archival Resurrections. He currently lives in Seattle.