"I am not the fine man you take me for" : the postmortem western from Unforgiven to No Country for Old Men

The Postmortem Western is so named because, after having been buried for 15 years, the genre reappears with a pronounced self-awareness of its atrophied conventions and ideologies. As Jim Kitses and Alexandra Keller observe, today’s Western is almost entirely revisionist. Chapter One delineates tw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strang, Brent
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23480