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100 1 $aMitchell, Lee Clark,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81011833
245 10 $aWesterns :$bmaking the man in fiction and film /$cLee Clark Mitchell.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1996.
300 $axvi, 331 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-317) and index.
520 $aRanging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from classic films like Stagecoach to spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars, Mitchell shows how Westerns helped assuage a series of crises in American culture, including debates and nationalism, suffragetism, the White Slave Trade, liberal social policy, even Dr. Spock.
520 8 $aAt the same time, Westerns have addressed issues of masculinity by setting them against various backdrops: gender (women), maturation (sons), honor (violence, restraint), and self-transformation (the West itself). Mitchell argues, for instance, that Westerns repeatedly depict men being punished as pretext for allowing them to recover, restoring themselves once again to full manhood. In Westerns, a man must continually work at being a man.
520 8 $a. The most extensive study of Westerns to appear in twenty-five years, Mitchell's book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the genre as well as for students of film, masculinity, and American Studies.
650 0 $aWestern stories$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113450
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aMasculinity$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aMotion pictures and literature$zWest (U.S.)
650 0 $aMasculinity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006169
650 0 $aWestern films$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113451
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113453
650 0 $aMen in motion pictures.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083529
650 0 $aMen in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083528
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