Picariello The Western and Political Thought

A Fistful of Politics
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-27284-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

The Western and Political Thought: A Fistful of Politics offers a variety of engaging and entertaining answers to the question: What do Westerns have to do with politics? This collection features contributions from scholars in a variety of fields—political science, English, communication studies, and others—that explore the connections between Westerns (prose fiction, films, television series, and more) and politics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Picariello, Damien K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction:      "Thus in the beginning all the World was America"

Part I: Law and Lawlessness

1.     "Virtue, Tyranny, and Political Rule in David Milch's Deadwood"

2.     "Happiness is a Warm Camera: Cinema of Violence and Lawlessness"

3.     "Simmering Madness: Mob Justice and The Ox-Bow Incident"

Part II: John Ford's America

4.     "On John Ford's Legendary Western Ambiguity"

5.     "'This is Our Town': Political Community in High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

6.     "Print the Legend: Violence, Virtue, and the Social Contract in Hang 'Em High and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

Part III: The Western as Mirror and Teacher

7.     "The Loner on the 'Frontier of Unfilled Hopes and Unfilled Threats': Serling's Old West in Kennedy's New Frontier"

8.     "No Man's Land: Film Cycles, Femininity, and Female Empowerment in the Modern Western"

9.     "Performance as Historiographic Disruption in Cultural Representations of the Black Cowboy"

10.  "'Comedy Too Knows About Justice': Blazing Saddles and the Western as Attic Comedy"

Part IV: The Adaptable, International West

11.  "Assimilationist Politics on the Frontier: Mid-Twentieth Century Westerns in America and Australia"

12.  "Ideological Uses of the Western in Film Depictions of Post-War Polish Borderlands"

13.  "Cowboy Sutures and the Real America"

Über Autor(innen)

Damien K. Picariello is Associate Professor of Political Science and Williams Brice Edwards Professor of Social Sciences at the University of South Carolina Sumter, USA. He is the editor of Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and The Politics of Horror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).