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Late Westerns : the persistence of a genre /

Mitchell argues that the Western continues to engage us because recent films deliberately defy classic patterns yet still appeal to an implicit fondness for genre conventions. Narrative expectations are so deeply stamped on our consciousness that we cannot escape reimposing assumptions on materials...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Series:	Postwestern horizons.
Subjects:	Western films > United States > History and criticism. West (U.S.) > In motion pictures. Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States > History > 21st century. Social change in motion pictures.

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