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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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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Crowded Prairie
• Subtitle: Hollywood Western and American National Identity
• Author: Michael D. Coyne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781860640407
• ISBN: 1860640400
• ID: 05121030
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 1997

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