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The World Beyond BetterMost => The Culture Tent => Topic started by: Front-Ranger on August 19, 2011, 10:48:32 pm

Title: The Western: Movies, TV, Plays, Books
Post by: Front-Ranger on August 19, 2011, 10:48:32 pm

I'm starting this new topic to discuss Westerns, and will begin with this comment by William Handley.

I just started reading William Handley's The Brokeback Book, and he quotes Wister often. Here's one:

"Brokeback Mountain is not a conventional Western. Yet it is a Western to the same extent that Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise and Wister's The Virginian are -- neither involves battles between cowboys and Indians but both are studies in gender difference within a nationalized landscape, which might be a broad definition of Westerns."

I never thought of the Western that way, but he might have a point.

Title: Re: The Western: Movies, TV, Plays, Books
Post by: Penthesilea on September 05, 2012, 01:03:50 am

Giving this a *bump* for Lee.