Hollywood westerns and American myth
Subtitle: the importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for political philosophy
By: Robert B. Pippin
Series: The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics; Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780300145779
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Red River and the right to rule; title: Who cares who shot Liberty Valance? : the heroic and the prosaic in The man who shot Liberty Valance; title: Politics and self-knowledge in The searchers; title: Conclusion.