Late Westerns
Subtitle: The Persistence of a Genre
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781496201966
Subjects: Western films; Motion pictures, social aspects; Motion pictures, united states
Description: "Mitchell argues that the Western continues to engage us because recent films deliberately defy classic patterns yet still appeal to an implicit fondness for genre conventions. Narrative expectations are so deeply stamped on our consciousness that we cannot escape reimposing assumptions on materials that barely resemble the classic Western"--