He was some kind of a man : masculinities in the B western /
He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century's most familiar names, especially for youngsters: co...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Waterloo, ON :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2009.
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| Col·lecció: | Film + media studies.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=322888 |
Taula de continguts:
- Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Ride the High Country, or "They Went Thataway"; 2 Cowboy Codes: Straight and Pure and All Boy; 3 When We Were Young: Nostalgia and the Cowboy Hero; 4 Arms and the Man: The Friendly Gun; 5 Give Me My Boots and Saddles: Camp Cowboy; 6 Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range; 7 White Hats and White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy?; 8 Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, and Masculinity; 9 Corporate Cowboys and the Shaping of a Nation; Postscript: The Frontiersman (1938); List of Films Mentioned; References; Index.