The philosophy of the western /
McMahon, Jennifer L.
Csaki, B. Steve.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
c2010.
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 / Lindsey Collins -- Pt. 2. The Code of the West: The Cowboy and Society. "Order Out of the Mud": Deadwood and the 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-Bow Incident / Ken Hada -- "Back Off to What?" The Search for Meaning in The Wild Bunch / Richard Gaughran -- No Country for Old Men: The Decline of 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.
Western films