John Wayne's world : transnational masculinity in the fifties /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: reexamining John Wayne
- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties
- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy
- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade
- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers
- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost
- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade
- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha
- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo
- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.