Hollywood's West
Subtitle: the American frontier in film, television, and history
By: edited by Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor.
Contributors: Rollins, Peter C.; O'Connor, John E.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky; The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780813191966
Subjects: Western films -- United States -- History and criticism; Western television programs -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-344) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [300]-321.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the West, Westerns, and American character / John E. O'Connor and Peter C. Rollins; title: The new Western history in 1931 : RKO and the challenge of Cimarron / J.E. Smyth; title: Tradition, parody, and adaptation : Jed Buell's unconventional West / Cynthia J. Miller; title: The lone ranger : adult legacies of a juvenile Western / John Shelton Lawrence; title: Wee Willie Winkie goes West : the influence of the British Empire genre on Ford's cavalry trilogy / Kathleen A. McDonough; title: Beyond the river : women and the role of the feminine in Howard Hawks's Red river / John Parris Springer; title: The "ache for home" : assimilation and separatism in Anthony Mann's Devil's doorway / Joanna Hearne; title: Giant helps America recognize the cost of discrimination : a lesson of World War II / Monique James Baxter; title: Rewriting High noon : transformations in American popular political culture during the Cold War, 1952-1968 / Matthew J. Costello; title: Almost angels, almost feminists : women in The professionals / Winona Howe; title: Cowboys and comedy : the simultaneous deconstruction and reinforcement of generic conventions in the Western parody / Matthew R. Turner; title: Historical discourse and American identity in Westerns since the Reagan Era / Alexandra Keller; title: Challenging legends, complicating border lines : the concept of "frontera" in John Sayles's Lone star / Kimberly Sultze; title: Turner Network Television's made-for-TV Western films : engaging audiences through genre and themes / David Pierson.