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The Western: Movies, TV, Plays, Books
« 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.
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Re: The Western: Movies, TV, Plays, Books
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2012, 01:03:50 am »
Giving this a *bump* for Lee.