From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the WesternISBN: 978-1-4051-3964-9
Hardcover
288 pages
April 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an
original and compelling critical history of the American Western
film.
- Provides an insightful overview of the American Western
genre
- Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the
present
- Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as
expressions of political and social desires
- Deepens an audience’s understanding of the genre’s
most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, The
Searchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill
- Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.