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Informationen zum Autor By Douglas Brode Klappentext With paradigm-shifting readings of dozens of Westerns, from Gunfight at the O.K. Corral to No Country for Old Men, this book challenges us to rethink the genre as a supposed purveyor of conservative political and religious values. Zusammenfassung Examining dozens of Westerns, including Gunfight at the O K Corral, Red River, 3:10 to Yuma, The Wild Ones, High Noon, My Darling Clementine, The Alamo, and No Country for Old Men, this title demonstrates that the genre was the product of Hollywood liberals who used it to project a progressive agenda. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. “Code of the West”: Politics, Religion, and Popular CulturePart One. Cowboy Politics: Roosevelt through Reagan 1. To Die in the West: The O.K. Corral, History versus Film2. Sheriff of Cochise: Thirty Seconds to Eternity3. Red, White, and Blue States: Political Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century America4. “From My Cold, Dead Hands": Gun Control in the West and Westerns5. Way of the Gun: Violence in American Life6. It‘s a Man's World? Gender Politics on Hollywood’s Frontier7. Go West, Young (Business)Man: American Dreamers, Political Schemers8. Redistributing the Wealth: Gene Autry, Frank Capra, and the New Deal Western9. Don‘t Fence Me In: Rugged Individualism and Open Range10. Silent Springs, Vanishing Prairies: Environmentalism and the Western11. Red States, Red Menace: Of Cowboys and Communism12. Once upon a Time in a Revolution: Radical Politics and the Western Film13. Viva Juárez! Viva Villa! Viva Zapata! The Biographical Western as Political Allegory14. All the Right Stuff: The World According to John Wayne15. Flag-Waving on the Wild Frontier: Stars and Stripes as Political IdeologyPart Two. God‘s Country: Religion in the Western Film 16. Odes to American Imperialism: Manifest Destiny in Western Movies17. The Town and the City: Space as Theme, Place as Character18. Glory in the (Wild)Flower: Romanticism on the Open Range19. Hearts of Darkness, Souls of Light: Visions of Nature in American Film and Fiction20. A Chapel in the Canyon: Religiosity, American-Style21. Multiculturalism, Mormonism, and Movies: Hollywood’s History and Cultural Appropriation22. End of the Trail: The Dark Side of Faith23. Ride Out for Vengeance: Revising a Western Paradigm24. Old Testament and New: Days of Wrath, Angels of Mercy25. The Church and the Saloon: Catholic versus Protestant Westerns26. Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Pistol and the Pulpit27. Harts of the West: The Gospel According to Clint28. Then Came Sam! From Pappy to Peckinpah29. Count No Man Lucky until His Death: The Western as American Tragedy30. Born Again: Of Cowboys, Christianity, and ConversionConclusion. No Country for Bold Men: The Western Film in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex of Films and ShowsGeneral Index...
