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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lee Clark MitchellPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9781496201966ISBN 10: 1496201965 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 01 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: There’s No Such Thing as Postwestern, and It’s a Good Thing Too 1. Ghostly Evocations in Bad Day at Black Rock 2. Catching the 3:10 to Yuma 3. Border-Crossing in Lone Star 4. Alternative Facts in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 5. Defying Expectations in A History of Violence and Brokeback Mountain 6. Dueling Genres in No Country for Old Men 7. Subverting Late Westerns in The Counselor Epilogue: Habits of Imagination Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsLate Westerns offers a helpful and timely contribution to an important and growing area in the field of Western film studies, one anchored in the broader field of genre studies. All of the chapters are expertly written in a confident and highly readable style and, furthermore, indicate the work of a scholar completely in charge of his subject matter. -Matthew Carter, senior lecturer in film at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative -- Matthew Carter Lee Clark Mitchell argues the often autopsied genre is well and alive, and ever-evolving without changing at its core. Examining a fistful of films, from 3:10 to Yuma to Brokeback Mountain to No Country For Old Men, he makes his points in persuasive detail. -Henry C. Parke, True West -- Henry C. Parke * True West * Late Westerns offers a helpful and timely contribution to an important and growing area in the field of Western film studies, one anchored in the broader field of genre studies. All of the chapters are expertly written in a confident and highly readable style and, furthermore, indicate the work of a scholar completely in charge of his subject matter. -Matthew Carter, senior lecturer in film at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative? -- Matthew Carter Lee Clark Mitchell argues the often autopsied genre is well and alive, and ever-evolving without changing at its core. Examining a fistful of films, from 3:10 to Yuma to Brokeback Mountain to No Country For Old Men, he makes his points in persuasive detail. -Henry C. Parke, True West -- Henry C. Parke * True West * Late Westerns offers a helpful and timely contribution to an important and growing area in the field of Western film studies, one anchored in the broader field of genre studies. All of the chapters are expertly written in a confident and highly readable style and, furthermore, indicate the work of a scholar completely in charge of his subject matter. -Matthew Carter, senior lecturer in film at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative -- Matthew Carter Author InformationLee Clark Mitchell is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and a professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels; Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film; and Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, among other books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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