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Author Lenihan, John H., 1941-

Title Showdown : confronting modern America in the western film / John H. Lenihan
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1980]
©1980

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Description x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents The western formula -- Cold war-path -- Racial attitudes -- Postwar alienation from the Good Society -- Society in the 1950s: Complacent or plaintive? -- Against the Establishment
Analysis American cinema films Westerns 1945-1978 Social aspects
American cinema films: Westerns, 1945-1978 Social aspects
Notes Includes indexes
Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Maryland, 1976
Bibliography Bibliography and filmography: pages [177]-202
Subject Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
National characteristics, American.
Western films -- History and criticism.
Western films -- Social aspects.
Western films.
LC no. 79025271
ISBN 0252007697
0252012542 (paperback)