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Author(s): Douglas Brode
ISBN(s): 9780292745568, 0292745567
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 51.79 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0292745567

ISBN 13: 9780292745568

Author: Douglas Brode

While political liberals celebrated the end of “cowboy politics” with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still vociferously support “cowboy” values such as small government, low taxes, free-market capitalism, and the right to bear arms. Yet, as Douglas Brode argues in this paradigm-shifting book, these supposedly cowboy or “Old West” values hail not so much from the actual American frontier of the nineteenth century as from Hollywood’s portrayal of it in the twentieth century. And a close reading of Western films and TV shows reveals a much more complex picture than the romanticized, simplistic vision espoused by the conservative right.

Examining dozens of Westerns, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Red River, 3:10 to Yuma (old and new), The Wild Ones, High Noon, My Darling Clementine, The Alamo, and No Country for Old Men, Brode demonstrates that the genre (with notable exceptions that he fully covers) was the product of Hollywood liberals who used it to project a progressive agenda on issues such as gun control, environmental protection, respect for non-Christian belief systems, and community cohesion versus rugged individualism. Challenging us to rethink everything we thought we knew about the genre, Brode argues that the Western stands for precisely the opposite of what most people today—whether they love it or hate it—believe to be the essential premise of “the only truly, authentically, and uniquely American narrative form.”

Table of contents:

Part One: Cowboy Politics
Chapter 1 To Die in the West
Chapter 2 Sheriff of Cochise
Chapter 3 Red, White and Blue States
Chapter 4 “From My Cold, Dead Hands”
Chapter 5 Way of the Gun
Chapter 6 It’s a Man’s World?
Chapter 7 Go West, Young (Business) Man
Chapter 8 Redistributing the Wealth
Chapter 9 Don’t Fence Me In
Chapter 10 Silent Springs, Vanishing Prairies
Chapter 11 Red States, Red Menace
Chapter 12 Once Upon a Time in a Revolution
Chapter 13 Viva Juárez! Viva Villa! Viva Zapata!
Chapter 14 All the Right Stuff
Chapter 15 Flag-Waving on the Wild Frontier

Part Two: God’s Country
Chapter 16 Odes to American Imperialism
Chapter 17 The Town and the City
Chapter 18 Glory in the (Wild) Flower
Chapter 19 Hearts of Darkness, Souls of Light
Chapter 20 A Chapel in the Canyon
Chapter 21 Multiculturalism, Mormonism, and Movies
Chapter 22 End of the Trail
Chapter 23 Ride Out for Vengeance
Chapter 24 Old Testament and New
Chapter 25 The Church and the Saloon
Chapter 26 Onward, Christian Soldiers
Chapter 27 Harts of the West
Chapter 28 Then Came Sam!
Chapter 29 Count No Man Lucky Until His Death
Chapter 30 Born Again

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