{"product_id":"post-westerns-cinema-region-west-hardback-9780803234765","title":"Post-Westerns; Cinema, Region, West (Hardback) 9780803234765","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePost-Westerns\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCinema, Region, West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNeil Campbell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780803234765\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e432 pages, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.9 cm, 0.808 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Readers of western history and literature and, of course, fans of the Western will find Campbell's insights and interpretations a compelling reason to revisit the post-Westerns he analyzes so well.\"-Leonard Engel, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is the work of a mature, well-informed scholar very much at the top of his game.\"-James F. Scott, \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePost-Westerns\u003c\/i\u003e is distinguished by its theoretical sophistication, its brilliant close readings of the form and content of a diversity of modern and contemporary films, and its close meditation on the potential politics associated with such films [as they] address the intersection of memory, identity, and history.\"—Stephen Tatum, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Remington Moment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply \"maintaining its empty frame.\" Yet this frame is far from empty, as \u003ci\u003ePost-Westerns\u003c\/i\u003e shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films—including \u003ci\u003eBad Day at Black Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Misfits\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLone Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEasy Rider\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGas Food Lodging\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDown in the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/i\u003e—reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCampbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact \"ghost-Westerns,\" haunted by the earlier form's devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Big Hats, Horses, and Dust: The Visible and Invisible West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Dead Westerns: The Posthumous and the Post-Western\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Mourning in America: \u003cu\u003eThe Lusty Men\u003c\/u\u003e (1952) and \u003cu\u003eBad Day at Black Rock\u003c\/u\u003e (1954)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. \"You and Your God's Country\": \u003cu\u003eThe Misfits\u003c\/u\u003e (1961)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. \"We Keep Heading West\": Dennis Hopper and the Post-Western\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Exile and Dislocation in the Urban Post-Western: \u003cu\u003eThe Exiles\u003c\/u\u003e (1961) and \u003cu\u003eFat City\u003c\/u\u003e (1972)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Post-Western Genealogies: John Sayles's \u003cu\u003eLone Star\u003c\/u\u003e (1996) and \u003cu\u003eSilver City\u003c\/u\u003e (2004)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. \"Opened from the Inside Out\": Wim Wenders's \u003cu\u003eDon't Come Knocking\u003c\/u\u003e (2005)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. The Idioms of Living: Donna Deitch and Allison Anders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. The Schizo-West: \u003cu\u003eDown in the Valley\u003c\/u\u003e (2005)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Spook Country: The Pensive West of \u003cu\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/u\u003e (2007)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Is There a Politics of the Post-Western?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545953530136,"sku":"9780803234765","price":45.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/post-westerns-cinema-region-west-hardback-9780803234765","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}