RE-IMAGINING THE FRONTIER by Alexandra Keller ( 9780813398242 )

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RE-IMAGINING THE FRONTIER

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ISBN 10:

081339824X

ISBN 13:

9780813398242

Publisher:

INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

Pub. date:

14 January, 2002

Pages:

275

Description:

Many of the Westerns made since the Reagan era serve up explicit critiques of the racist, masculinist and colonialist baggage of the classical Western tradition, yet operate within the genre's parameters. This work maintains that Westerns are exceptionally revealing about American identity.

Synopsis:

"Re-imagining the Frontier" investigates Westerns produced since the Reagan era. Keller argues that the Western remains a clearly distinguishable genre, and that contemporary Westerns operate within that genre tradition. Like much cultural production in the postmodern epoch, the Western film possesses qualities we can confidently label postmodern. Recent Westerns incorporate pastiche and irony while simultaneously subverting the foundations of the genre by introducing subaltern "others" as central subjects. Many of the new Westerns serve up explicit critiques of the racist, masculinist and colonialist baggage of the classical Western tradition, yet operate within the genre's parameters. This is important because, as Keller maintains, Westerns are exceptionally revealing about American identity; Westerns are signposts of the contours of American culture at a particular moment, and they are important vehicles through which the wider culture articulates itself.

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Imprint:

Westview Press Inc

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Non-returnable

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