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The American Western Film
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The American Western Film

Corey K Creekmur
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West, pp.395-408
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
04/15/2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781444396591.ch25

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Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: Remembering the Western Inventing the Western The Western in Hollywood Revision and Elegy The Western's Endurance References and Further Reading
 David Belasco's popular stage melodrama The Girl of the Golden West ‐ adapted into Giacomo Puccini's opera elegiac accounts of late nineteenth‐century American history ‐ for early twentieth‐century audiences greater participation by Native Americans ‐ women, forgotten role as stars, audiences and creators of early westerns kinetoscope films, Sioux Ghost Dance, Bucking Broncho, and Annie Oakley ‐ William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody's Wild West show remembering the Western, and film western ‐ representing the past in American popular culture success of later westerns ‐ Silverado, Dances with Wolves, and Tombstone, but not full‐scale revivals of the genre the American Western Film the Western in Hollywood, popular films streamlined ‐ by a factory‐like studio system in Hollywood, California the western, denounced as an artifact ‐ brutal conquest and genocide by “superior,” “civilized” Anglo‐Saxon and Christian hegemony “uninterrupted success” of the western, 1950s ‐ Bazin, and that the western, indefinitely, crumbling with the Hollywood studio system itself

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