Awards

• Winner of Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine 2009 Book of the Year Award in the Popular Culture Category.

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Author:   Roderick McGillis
Publisher:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781554580590

ISBN 10:   1554580595
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   30 May 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western by Roderick McGillis Preface 1: Introduction: Ride the High Country or """"They Went Thataway"""" 2: Cowboy Codes: Straight and Pure and All Boy 3: When We were Young: Nostalgia and the Cowboy Hero 4: Arms and the Man: The Friendly Gun 5: Give Me My Boots and Saddles: Camp Cowboy 6: Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range 7: White Hats and White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy? 8: Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, and Masculinity 9: Corporate Cowboys and the Shaping of a Nation Postscript: The Frontiersman (1938) List of Films Mentioned References Index"

Reviews

McGillis' love of the cowboy film, indeed the overwhelming importance of the genre for his childhood identity, is evident throughout the book, which is full of personal anecdotes and nostalgic recollections...He is most effective when discussing masculinity and boyhood and he analyses costume in the B Western well. Paul Sutton (Roehampton University), Times Higher Education, 19 November 2009

McGillis' love of the cowboy film, indeed the overwhelming importance of the genre for his childhood identity, is evident throughout the book, which is full of personal anecdotes and nostalgic recollections...He is most effective when discussing masculinity and boyhood and he analyses costume in the B Western well. Paul Sutton (Roehampton University), Times Higher Education, 19 November 2009 'A fascinating study of part of the wider genre that wise pardners would be quick to get out of the saddle and check out. Yee-haw.' -- Screentrade Feb 2010

Author Information

Roderick McGillis is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of the award-winning The Nimble Reader (1996), A Little Princess: Gender and Empire (1996), and Les Pieds Devant (2007), and the editor of George MacDonald: Literary Heritage and Heirs (2007). He is a former editor of The Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and former president of the Children's Literature Association.

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