Late Westerns : the persistence of a genre / Lee Clark Mitchell.

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Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- [Author]

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781496210715

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PN1995 .L384 2018

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Contents:

1. Ghostly Evocations in Bad Day at Black Rock -- 2. Catching the 3:10 to Yuma -- 3. Border-Crossing in Lone Star -- 4. Alternative Facts in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada -- 5. Defying Expectations in A History of Violence and Brokeback Mountain -- 6. Dueling Genres in No Country for Old Men 7. Subverting Late Westerns in The Counselor -- Epilogue: Habits of Imagination.

Subject: "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 that barely resemble the classic Western"--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

"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 that barely resemble the classic Western"--

Introduction: There's No Such Things as a Postwestern, and a Good Thing Too -- 1. Ghostly Evocations in Bad Day at Black Rock -- 2. Catching the 3:10 to Yuma -- 3. Border-Crossing in Lone Star -- 4. Alternative Facts in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada -- 5. Defying Expectations in A History of Violence and Brokeback Mountain -- 6. Dueling Genres in No Country for Old Men 7. Subverting Late Westerns in The Counselor -- Epilogue: Habits of Imagination.

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