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Professionals in Western Film and Fiction - Kenneth E. Hall

Professionals in Western Film and Fiction

The Portrayal of Doctors, Lawyers, Journalists, Clergymen and Others

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Buch | Softcover
231 Seiten
2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9729-4 (ISBN)
CHF 49,95 inkl. MwSt
Compares the roles of civil professionals in most American Westerns to those in work on the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Included are studies on the Santiago Toole novels by Richard Wheeler, Strange Lady in Town with Greer Garson, and La sombra del Caudillo by Martín Luis Guzmán.
 In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall girls. Civil professionals such as doctors, engineers and journalists have been given far less representation, usually appearing as background characters in most films and fiction.

In Westerns about the 1910 Mexican Revolution, however, civil professionals also feature prominently in the narrative, often as members of the intelligentsia--an important force in Mexican politics. This book compares the roles of civil professionals in most American Westerns to those in films on the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Included are studies on the Santiago Toole novels by Richard Wheeler, Strange Lady in Town with Greer Garson and La sombra del Caudillo by Martin Luis Guzman.

Kenneth E. Hall has written several books, including a study of John Woo’s The Killer, authored many articles on Latin American literature, and is a contributor to Studies in the Western. He is a professor of Spanish at East Tennessee State University and lives in Johnson City, Tennessee.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword by Peter Noçon and Peter Bischoff

Introduction

1. Professional Case Studies: Doctors on the Frontier

2. Professional Allies: Lawyers, Gunsmiths and Other Fixers

3. Masquerades: Civil Professionals in Disguise

4. Encroachments of Culture: The Frontier in History and Fiction

5. Professionals as Civilization Meets Barbarism

6. Professionals Across the Border: Mexican Revolution Fiction and “Professional Westerns”

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 313 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
ISBN-10 0-7864-9729-7 / 0786497297
ISBN-13 978-0-7864-9729-4 / 9780786497294
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