Title: Loaded Fictions
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, American fiction, Western stories, Social problems in literature, Literature and society, Westernroman, Gesellschaftskritik, Geschichte 1900-1995
Places: West (U.S.)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS374.W4 E44 1996