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Cowboys As Cold Warriors Stanley Corkin

Cowboys As Cold Warriors By Stanley Corkin

Cowboys As Cold Warriors by Stanley Corkin


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The United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. This book examines many of the significant westerns released between 1946 and 1962, analyzing how they responded to and influenced the cultural climate of the country.

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Cowboys As Cold Warriors: The Western And U S History by Stanley Corkin

Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. Cowboys as Cold Warriors shows that this was no coincidence. It examines many of the significant westerns released between 1946 and 1962, analyzing how they responded to and influenced the cultural climate of the country. Author Stanley Corkin discusses a dozen films in detail, connecting them to each other and to numerous others. He considers how these cultural productions both embellished the myth of the American frontier and reflected the era in which they were made. Films discussed include: My Darling Clementine, Red River, Duel in the Sun, Pursued, Fort Apache, Broken Arrow, The Gunfighter, High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, Gunfight at the OK Corral, The Magnificent Seven, The Alamo, Lonely Are the Brave, Ride the High Country, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

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Stanley Corkin brings a shrewd eye and a keen historical consciousness to this perceptive examination of the Hollywood Western in its glory days, exploring how these iconic films subtly addressed the global realignments, domestic tensions, and gender issues of the early Cold War era. Not only film buffs but everyone interested in mid-20th century U.S. politics and culture will enjoy and profit from this book.-Paul Boyer, author of By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Cowboys as Cold Warriors takes the reader on a galloping ride through the Western as meta-mythology. Corkin treats the films as the mapping of the American empire in the past, and a powerful metaphor for asserting its essential raison d'etre.-Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University
[O]ne must admire Mr. Corkin for his years-long struggle to show...that there is more to these movies than meets the eye of the casual viewer.-The Washington Times
Highly recommended.-Choice
What makes Corkin's work unique is his focus on sixteen American films made between 1946 and 1962 and his argument that the evolution of the western genre during this period closely paralleled, influenced, and was influenced by changing official and popular American attitudes toward the cold war. Some of Corkin's insights are persuasive...-History

About Stanley Corkin

Stanley Corkin is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and author of Realism and the Birth of the Modern U.S.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Westerns, U.S. History, and the Cold War1. Cowboys, Free Markets, Wyatt Earp, and Thomas Dunson: My Darling Clementine and Red River2. Melodrama and the Feminine Means to Empire: Duel in the Sun, Pursued, and Fort Apache3. Cold War Westerns and the Law of the Gun: Broken Arrow and The Gunfighter4. Korea, Containment, and Nationalism: High Noon, Shane, and The Searchers5. Modernization Theory, Political Discord, and Intervention: Gunfight at the OK Corral, The Magnificent Seven, and The Alamo6. Imperialist Nostalgia and the Road to Vietnam: Lonely Are the Brave, Ride the High Country, and The Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceNotesBibliographyIndex

Additional information

CIN1592132545G
9781592132546
1592132545
Cowboys As Cold Warriors: The Western And U S History by Stanley Corkin
Used - Good
Paperback
Temple University Press,U.S.
20040608
272
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