From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western;

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is anoriginal and compelling critical history of the American Westernfilm.

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• Provides an insightful overview of the American Westerngenre
  
• Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to thepresent
  
• Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well asexpressions of political and social desires
  
• Deepens an audience’s understanding of the genre’smost important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, TheSearchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill
  
• Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issuesdiscussed.