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The philosophy of the western

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The philosophy of the western/ edited by Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki.
other author:	Csaki, B. Steve.
Published:	Lexington :University Press of Kentucky, : c2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (368 p.).
Subject:	Western films - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780813173856 (electronic bk.)

The philosophy of the western
The philosophy of the western[electronic resource] /edited by Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki. - Lexington :University Press of Kentucky,c2010. - 1 online resource (368 p.). - The philosophy of popular culture. - Philosophy of popular culture..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. The cowboy way: the essence of the western hero. "Do not forsake me, oh, my darling": loneliness and solitude in westerns / Shai Biderman -- Civilization and its discontents: the self-sufficient western hero / Douglas J. Den Uyl -- Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be pragmatists / B. Steve Csaki -- Two ways to Yuma: Locke, liberalism, and western masculinity in 3:10 to Yuma /Stephen J. Mexal -- Landscapes of gendered violence: male love and anxiety on the railroad / LindseyCollins -- Pt. 2. The code of the West: the cowboy and society. "Orderout of the mud": Deadwood andthe state of nature / Paul A. Cantor -- Order without law: The Magnificent Seven, East and West / Aeon J. Skoble -- From dollars to iron: the currency of Clint Eastwood's westerns / David L. McNaron -- The duty of reason: Kantian ethics in High Noon / Daw-Nay Evans -- Pt. 3. Outlaws: challenging conventions of the western.The cost of the code: ethical consequences in High Noon and the Ox-BowIncident / Ken Hada -- "Back off to what?" The search for meaning in The Wild Bunch / Richard Gaughran --No Country for Old Men: the declineof ethics and the west(ern) / William J. Devlin -- The northwestern: McCabe and Mrs. Miller / George McKnight -- Pt. 4. On the fringe: the encounter with the other -- Savage nations: Native Americans and the western / Michael Valdez Moses -- Regeneration through stories and song: the view from the other side of the west in Smoke Signals / Richard Gilmore -- Go west, young woman! "Hegel's dialectic and women's identities in western films / Gary Heba and Robin Murphy -- Beating a live horse: the elevation and degradation of horses in westerns / Jennifer L. McMahon.

ISBN: 9780813173856 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

657045
Western films
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.W4 / P485 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/6278

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