From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film. * Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre * Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present * Analyses Westerns as products of a gen [...]
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From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film. * Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre * Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present * Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires * Deepens an audience's understanding of the genre's most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill * Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.