{"product_id":"late-westerns-9781496201966","title":"Late Westerns","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle—with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre—maintain its appeal? In \u003ci\u003eLate Westerns\u003c\/i\u003e Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach “post” to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily, defied generic patterns, the western continues to enthrall audiences. It does so by engaging narrative expectations stamped on our collective consciousness so firmly as to integrate materials that might not seem obviously “western” at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through plot cues, narrative reminders, and even cinematic frameworks, recent films shape interpretive understanding by \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholars familiar with the Western genre of film and literature will find this book of particular value, as will those concerned with questions of genre in film studies. Its greatest strength lies in the variety of films selected for close viewing. . . . Mitchell makes an overall clear and persuasive argument for the continuation of the Western film genre and that there is nothing 'post' about it.\"—Rebecca Trammell Couch, \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003e3:10 to Yuma\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eNo Country For Old Men\u003c\/i\u003e, he makes his points in persuasive detail.\"—Henry C. Parke, \u003ci\u003eTrue West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholars and enthusiasts alike will place this volume beside Mitchell's \u003ci\u003eWesterns\u003c\/i\u003e on their shelves.\"—Lydia R. Cooper, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLate Westerns\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMyth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood’s Frontier Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: There’s No Such Thing as Postwestern, and It’s a Good Thing Too\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ghostly Evocations in Bad Day at Black Rock\u003cbr\u003e 2. Catching the 3:10 to Yuma\u003cbr\u003e 3. Border-Crossing in Lone Star\u003cbr\u003e 4. Alternative Facts in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada\u003cbr\u003e 5. Defying Expectations in A History of Violence and Brokeback Mountain\u003cbr\u003e 6. Dueling Genres in No Country for Old Men\u003cbr\u003e 7. Subverting Late Westerns in The Counselor\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Habits of Imagination\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409216938327,"sku":"9781496201966","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496201966.jpg?v=1730505986","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/late-westerns-9781496201966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}