The Creation of the Cowboy Hero

Fiction, Film and Fact

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Film, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Jeremy Agnew ISBN: 9781476618142
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: November 19, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Jeremy Agnew
ISBN: 9781476618142
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: November 19, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book’s main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.

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As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book’s main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.

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