The Quick, the Dead and the Revived: The Many Lives of the Western Film

by Joseph Maddrey

For well more than a century, Western films have embodied the United States' most fundamental doctrine--expansionism--and depicted, in a uniquely American way, the archetypal battle between good and evil. Westerns also depict a country defined and re-defined by complex crises. World War II transformed the genre as well as the nation's identity. Since then, Hollywood filmmakers have been fighting America's ideological wars onscreen by translating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476665516
• ISBN13: 9781476665511
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher