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Informationen zum Autor Lee Clark Mitchell is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and a professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels; Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film; and Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, among other books. Klappentext Lee Clark Mitchell is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and a professor of English at Princeton University.¿He is the author of¿Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels;¿Westerns:¿Making the Man in Fiction and Film; and Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, among other books. ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ Zusammenfassung Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach ""post"" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago! though men on horseback have become commonplace! and though films of all sorts have always! necessarily defied generic patterns! the Western continues to enthrall audiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: There’s No Such Thing as Postwestern, and It’s a Good Thing Too 1. Ghostly Evocations in Bad Day at Black Rock 2. Catching the 3:10 to Yuma 3. Border-Crossing in Lone Star 4. Alternative Facts in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 5. Defying Expectations in A History of Violence and Brokeback Mountain 6. Dueling Genres in No Country for Old Men 7. Subverting Late Westerns in The Counselor Epilogue: Habits of Imagination Notes Bibliography Index
