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The creation of the cowboy hero : fiction, film and fact /

"As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created a compelling image of the West, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced public perception of the cowboy as a hero figure. This book describes the evolution of the Western cowboy he...

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Main Author: Agnew, Jeremy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Subjects:
Western films > United States > History and criticism.
Cowboys in popular culture.
Western stories > History and criticism.
West (U.S.) > In motion pictures.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • There have to be heroes
  • The legend begins
  • The lure of the dime novels
  • The great showman
  • Buffalo Bill's Wild West
  • More and more wild west shows
  • Our cowboy heroes
  • Flickering images
  • Tom Mix and the flashy showmen
  • Pulp magazines and mass-market paperbacks
  • Warbling cowboys and the silver screen
  • Brooding heroes
  • And a suitable heroine
  • Violence returns
  • The image persists.

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