Loaded Fictions
Subtitle: Social Critique in the Twentieth-Century Western
Publisher: University of Idaho Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780893011949
Subjects: Western Films; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Literary Criticism; Western stories; West (U.S.); General; American fiction; 20th century; History and criticism
Description: Many Western novels and movies provide insight into contemporary problems - such as sexism, racism, violence, and exploitation of the land - and advocate social change. Emmert demonstrates that such commentary is not new to Westerns; every generation has produced works that dared to criticize society. To illustrate this point, Emmert analyzes a range of Western novels and films produced prior to the late 1960s which broke with old formulas in order to comment on social ills.