{"product_id":"dream-west-9780292748286","title":"Dream West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith paradigm-shifting readings of dozens of Westerns, from Gunfight at the O.K. Corral to No Country for Old Men, this book challenges us to rethink the genre as a supposed purveyor of conservative political and religious values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClearly Brode has made an important contribution to the literature on Western motion pictures. On nearly every page readers are confronted with new perspectives and ways of understanding how a film genre over one hundred years old addresses critical issues of American politics and religion. -- Western Historical Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. “Code of the West”: Politics, Religion, and Popular Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One. Cowboy Politics: Roosevelt through Reagan \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. To Die in the West: The O.K. Corral, History versus Film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Sheriff of Cochise: Thirty Seconds to Eternity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Red, White, and Blue States: Political Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. “From My Cold, Dead Hands\": Gun Control in the West and Westerns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Way of the Gun: Violence in American Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. It‘s a Man's World? Gender Politics on Hollywood’s Frontier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Go West, Young (Business)Man: American Dreamers, Political Schemers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Redistributing the Wealth: Gene Autry, Frank Capra, and the New Deal Western\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Don‘t Fence Me In: Rugged Individualism and Open Range\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Silent Springs, Vanishing Prairies: Environmentalism and the Western\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Red States, Red Menace: Of Cowboys and Communism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Once upon a Time in a Revolution: Radical Politics and the Western Film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Viva Juárez! Viva Villa! Viva Zapata! The Biographical Western as Political Allegory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. All the Right Stuff: The World According to John Wayne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. Flag-Waving on the Wild Frontier: Stars and Stripes as Political Ideology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two. God‘s Country: Religion in the Western Film \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. Odes to American Imperialism: Manifest Destiny in Western Movies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. The Town and the City: Space as Theme, Place as Character\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. Glory in the (Wild)Flower: Romanticism on the Open Range\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19. Hearts of Darkness, Souls of Light: Visions of Nature in American Film and Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20. A Chapel in the Canyon: Religiosity, American-Style\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21. Multiculturalism, Mormonism, and Movies: Hollywood’s History and Cultural Appropriation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e22. End of the Trail: The Dark Side of Faith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23. Ride Out for Vengeance: Revising a Western Paradigm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24. Old Testament and New: Days of Wrath, Angels of Mercy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e25. The Church and the Saloon: Catholic versus Protestant Westerns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e26. Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Pistol and the Pulpit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e27. Harts of the West: The Gospel According to Clint\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e28. Then Came Sam! From Pappy to Peckinpah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e29. Count No Man Lucky until His Death: The Western as American Tragedy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e30. Born Again: Of Cowboys, Christianity, and Conversion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. No Country for Bold Men: The Western Film in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex of Films and Shows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeneral Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400872567127,"sku":"9780292748286","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292748286.jpg?v=1730471804","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dream-west-9780292748286","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}