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Michael Coyne...heftÝs his pickax in search of intellectual nuggets..."The Crowded Prairie's" real strength lies in Coyne's passion. "The Washington Post"
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This text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s. The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, increasing individual social alienation, and explains why a celebratory genre veered, during a generation of unprecedented power and prosperity, from sagas of national achievement to bleak, virtually asocial visions of life in the United States.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The author examines the Hollywood Western in its
heyday, from Stage Coach (1939) to The Outlaw Josey
Wales (1976), to view the genre in its social,
political, and cultural dimensions.
His approach is annoyingly Politically Correct (he
finds objectionable the depiction of the West as
having been conquered largely by white males,
which of course it was), and the intrusion of
conventional British class-consciousness may leave
some readers cold, but his connection ,for instance, of
Josey Wales to Vietnam is interesting, if unpersuasive.
The plots of the films are deftly summarized, but
the reader is encouraged to view the films
in conjuction with this text.
With filmography, bibliography, good index, and
some of the poorest photo-reproduction this
reviewer has seen.
(The numerical rating above is a default setting
within Amazon's format. This reviewer does not
employ numerical retings.)
heyday, from Stage Coach (1939) to The Outlaw Josey
Wales (1976), to view the genre in its social,
political, and cultural dimensions.
His approach is annoyingly Politically Correct (he
finds objectionable the depiction of the West as
having been conquered largely by white males,
which of course it was), and the intrusion of
conventional British class-consciousness may leave
some readers cold, but his connection ,for instance, of
Josey Wales to Vietnam is interesting, if unpersuasive.
The plots of the films are deftly summarized, but
the reader is encouraged to view the films
in conjuction with this text.
With filmography, bibliography, good index, and
some of the poorest photo-reproduction this
reviewer has seen.
(The numerical rating above is a default setting
within Amazon's format. This reviewer does not
employ numerical retings.)
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Interesting analyses.
21 July 1997
Format:Hardcover
The author examines the Hollywood Western in its
heyday, from Stage Coach (1939) to The Outlaw Josey
Wales (1976), to view the genre in its social,
political, and cultural dimensions.
His approach is annoyingly Politically Correct (he
finds objectionable the depiction of the West as
having been conquered largely by white males,
which of course it was), and the intrusion of
conventional British class-consciousness may leave
some readers cold, but his connection ,for instance, of
Josey Wales to Vietnam is interesting, if unpersuasive.
The plots of the films are deftly summarized, but
the reader is encouraged to view the films
in conjuction with this text.
With filmography, bibliography, good index, and
some of the poorest photo-reproduction this
reviewer has seen.
(The numerical rating above is a default setting
within Amazon's format. This reviewer does not
employ numerical retings.)
heyday, from Stage Coach (1939) to The Outlaw Josey
Wales (1976), to view the genre in its social,
political, and cultural dimensions.
His approach is annoyingly Politically Correct (he
finds objectionable the depiction of the West as
having been conquered largely by white males,
which of course it was), and the intrusion of
conventional British class-consciousness may leave
some readers cold, but his connection ,for instance, of
Josey Wales to Vietnam is interesting, if unpersuasive.
The plots of the films are deftly summarized, but
the reader is encouraged to view the films
in conjuction with this text.
With filmography, bibliography, good index, and
some of the poorest photo-reproduction this
reviewer has seen.
(The numerical rating above is a default setting
within Amazon's format. This reviewer does not
employ numerical retings.)
0 of 18 people found the following review helpful
I'm a fan of the Lone Star state
16 Feb 2002
Format:Paperback
The book was dedicated to John Wayne. Most historians dedicate their first book to their parents, but Michael Coyne takes another path.
Is this suggestive, (I think we should be told)
Continued on page 94
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