Playing Cowboys
Subtitle: Low Culture and High Art in the Western
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: March 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780806126272
Subjects: Cultural studies; Film theory & criticism; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Film - History & Criticism; American - General
First sentence: WHEN OWEN WISTER published The Virginian in 1902, his toughest critic was his mother, who didn't like the heroine and, more seriously, thought the construction "piecemeal."