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  title info:
    title: Cowboy classics
    sub title: the roots of the American western in the epic tradition
  name:
    name part: Day, Kirsten
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In the American psyche, the Wild West is a mythic-historical place where the nation's values and ideologies were formed. In this violent and uncertain world, the cowboy is the ultimate hero, fighting the bad guys, forging notions of manhood, and delineating what constitutes honor as he works to build civilization out of wilderness. Tales from this mythical place are best known from that most American of media, film. In the Greco-Roman societies that form the foundation of Western civilization, similar narratives were presented in what for them was the most characteristic, and indeed most filmic, genre, epic. Like Western film, the epics of Homer and Virgil focus on the mythichistorical past and its warriors who worked to establish the ideological framework of their respective civilizations. Through a close reading of films like High Noon and Shane, Kirsten Day examines the surprising connections between these seemingly disparate yet closely related genres.
  table of contents: Prologue -- Introduction: Western film and the epic tradition -- Howard Hawk's Red River -- Fred Zinnemann's High noon -- George Steven's Shane -- John Ford's The searchers -- John Ford's The man who shot Liberty Valance -- Conclusion.
  note: Kirsten Day.
  note: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
  subject:
    topic: Western films
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Greek
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Heroes
  subject:
    topic: Cowboys in popular culture
    geographic: United States
  classification: PN1995.9.W4 D392 2016
  classification: 791
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Screening antiquity
  identifier: 9781474402460
  identifier: 1474402461
  identifier: 9781474402477
  identifier: 9781474415163
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 160401
    record change date: 20170927095946.0
    record identifier: in00003727204