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Title:

FROM SHANE TO KILL BILL
RETHINKING THE WESTERN

By:

Patrick McGee

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

140513965X

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9781405139656

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

28 April, 2006

Series:

New Approaches to Film Genre

Pages:

280

Description:

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film.

Synopsis:

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film. Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires Deepens an audience s understanding of the genre s most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach , The Searchers, Unforgiven , and Kill Bill Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.

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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

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