"No Goin' Back": Modernity and the Film Western

This thesis is inspired by an ending—that of a cowboy hero riding away, back turned, into the setting sun. That image, possibly the most evocative and most repeated in the Western, signifies both continuing adventure and ever westward motion as well as a restless lack of final resolution. This thesi...

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Main Author: Kohler, Julie Anne
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2014
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4152
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5151&context=etd