Late Westerns : the persistence of a genre /
Mitchell argues that the Western continues to engage us because recent films deliberately defy classic patterns yet still appeal to an implicit fondness for genre conventions. Narrative expectations are so deeply stamped on our consciousness that we cannot escape reimposing assumptions on materials...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Postwestern horizons.
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| Summary: | Mitchell argues that the Western continues to engage us because recent films deliberately defy classic patterns yet still appeal to an implicit fondness for genre conventions. Narrative expectations are so deeply stamped on our consciousness that we cannot escape reimposing assumptions on materials that barely resemble the classic Western. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781496201966 1496201965 |