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Author(s): Jennifer L. McMahon, B. Steve Csaki (editors)
ISBN(s): 9780813125916, 081312591X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.96 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 081312591X

ISBN 13: 9780813125916 

Author: Jennifer L. McMahon, B. Steve Csaki

The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America’s history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western embodies America and its values. In recent years, scholars had declared the western genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western themes in literature, film, and television has reestablished the genre as one of the most important.

In The Philosophy of the Western, editors Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki examine philosophical themes in the western genre. Investigating subjects of nature, ethics, identity, gender, environmentalism, and animal rights, the essays draw from a wide range of westerns including the recent popular and critical successes Unforgiven (1992), All the Pretty Horses (2000), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as literature and television serials such as Deadwood. The Philosophy of the Western reveals the influence of the western on the American psyche, filling a void in the current scholarship of the genre.

Table of contents:

Introduction: Philosophy and the Western

Part 1. The Cowboy Way: The Essence of the Western Hero

“Do Not Forsake Me, Oh, My Darling”: Loneliness and Solitude in Westerns

Civilization and Its Discontents: The Self-Sufficient Western Hero

Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pragmatists

Two Ways to Yuma: Locke, Liberalism, and Western Masculinity in 3:10 to Yuma

Landscapes of Gendered Violence: Male Love and Anxiety on the Railroad

Part 2. The Code of the West: The Cowboy and Society

“Order Out of the Mud”: Deadwood and the State of Nature

Order without Law: The Magnificent Seven, East and West

From Dollars to Iron: The Currency of Clint Eastwood’s Westerns

The Duty of Reason: Kantian Ethics in High Noon

Part 3. Outlaws: Challenging Conventions of the Western

The Cost of the Code: Ethical Consequences in High Noon and The Ox-Bow Incident

“Back Off to What?” The Search for Meaning in The Wild Bunch

No Country for Old Men: The Decline of Ethics and the West(ern)

The Northwestern: McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Part 4. On the Fringe: The Encounter with the Other

Savage Nations: Native Americans and the Western

Regeneration through Stories and Song: The View from the Other Side of the West in Smoke Signals

Go West, Young Woman! Hegel’s Dialectic and Women’s Identities in Western Films

Beating a Live Horse: The Elevation and Degradation of Horses in Westerns

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

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