West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Jane Tompkins

Paperback, 1993

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Available

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Publication

Oxford University Press, U.S.A. (1993), Edition: Reprint, 272 pages

Description

In West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and films of the Amercian west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time. She probes the main elements of the Western, revealing the view of reality and code of behavior these features contain.

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Rating

½ (8 ratings; 3.9)

Subjects

West (U.S.) In literature
Western films History and criticism
Western stories History and criticism

Language

English

Original language

English

ISBN

0195082680 / 9780195082685

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