The American Western(English, Electronic book text, McVeigh Stephen)

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The American Western(English, Electronic book text, McVeigh Stephen) is written by McVeigh Stephen and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0748629440 (ISBN 10) and 9780748629442 (ISBN 13).

This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century.Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely American form. The author argues that America's frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American meta-narrative that came to underpin much of the 'American century'. He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols, the evolution of this mythology, and its subversions and reconstructions throughout 20th-century American history.The book engages with the full range of historical, literary and cinematic perspectives and texts, from the founding Western histories of Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner to the New Western history of Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White.