{"product_id":"ride-the-frontier-9781476683065","title":"Ride the Frontier","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation and hybridity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   The author covers a range of largely unexplored topics, including the role of heroines in a (supposedly) male-oriented system of film production, the function of the celluloid Indians, the transcultural and transnational history of the first spaghetti Western, the construction of femininity and masculinity in the hybrid Westerns of the 1950s, and the new paths of the Western in the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Why the Western?\u003cbr\u003e1. Transnational Adaptation, Transculturation and Indigenization: Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars\u003cbr\u003ePrologue  13\u003cbr\u003eThe National  16\u003cbr\u003eThe Origins: Local and Translocal  22\u003cbr\u003eThe Transnational  26\u003cbr\u003eConclusion  42\u003cbr\u003e2. Celluloid Indians, 1950s Westerns and the Termination Act: Broken Arrow, White Feather, The Battle of Apache Pass, Devil's Doorway, The Last Wagon and The Last Hunt\u003cbr\u003ePrologue  45\u003cbr\u003eBroken Arrow (1950)  52\u003cbr\u003eWhite Feather (1955) and The Battle of Apache Pass (1952)  57\u003cbr\u003eDevil's Doorway (1950)  59\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Wagon (1956)  67\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Hunt (1956)  74\u003cbr\u003eConclusion  79\u003cbr\u003e3. Heroines in Western Films? Mikhail Bakhtin's \"Dialogic Imagination\" in Shane, High Noon and Westward the Women\u003cbr\u003eMonoglossia: The Submissive Woman and Shane (1953)  89\u003cbr\u003eHeteroglossia: The Transgressive Woman and High Noon (1952)  93\u003cbr\u003e­X-glossia: Transformational Women and Westward the Women (1951)  100\u003cbr\u003e4. Hybridity and (De)Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in Rancho Notorious, Johnny Guitar and Duel in the Sun\u003cbr\u003eRancho Notorious: The Filmic Text (1952)  111\u003cbr\u003eJohnny Guitar: Paratext  121\u003cbr\u003eJohnny Guitar: Peritext and the Novel (1953)  123\u003cbr\u003eJohnny Guitar: The Filmic Text (1954)  127\u003cbr\u003eDuel in the Sun (1946): Paratext  136\u003cbr\u003eDuel in the Sun: The Novel (1944)  139\u003cbr\u003eDuel in the Sun: The Filmic Text (1946)  141\u003cbr\u003ePatriarchy and Failed Masculinities  143\u003cbr\u003ePatriarchy and Failed Femininities  146\u003cbr\u003eCapitalism and Patriotism  149\u003cbr\u003e5. New Paths of the Western in the Third Millennium: The Lone Ranger, Yesterday and Today\u003cbr\u003eThe Western Genre Today  152\u003cbr\u003eEnter The Lone Ranger: Prologue  155\u003cbr\u003eThe Lone Ranger Yesterday or How the West Was Conquered  156\u003cbr\u003eThe Lone Ranger (2013): Paratext  161\u003cbr\u003eThe Lone Ranger Today or How the West Was Lost  164\u003cbr\u003eChapter Notes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040483869015,"sku":"9781476683065","price":30.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476683065.jpg?v=1750946900","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ride-the-frontier-9781476683065","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}