ScreenSite Books: The Western Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell Published by University of Chicago Press in1996 Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'amour, and from clas sic films like Stagecoach to spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars, M itchell shows how Westerns helped assuage a series of crises in American culture , including debates about nationalism, suffragetism, the White Slave Trade, libe ral social policy, even Dr. Spock. (...) The most extensive study of Western to appear in twenty-five years, Mitchell's book will be essential reading for anyon e interested in the genre as well as for students of film, masculinity and Ameri can studies.

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