{"product_id":"post-westerns-cinema-region-west-9780803234765","title":"Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply \"maintaining its empty frame.\" Yet this frame is far from empty, as \u003ci\u003ePost-Westerns\u003c\/i\u003e shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranci re, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films--including \u003ci\u003eBad Day at Black Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Misfits\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLone Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEasy Rider\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGas Food Lodging\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDown in the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/i\u003e--reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCampbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact \"ghost-Westerns,\" haunted by the earlier form's devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803234765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeil Campbell is professor of American studies and senior research fellow at the University of Derby, England. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rhizomatic West: Representing the West in the Global, Media Age\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2008) and the editor of, most recently, \u003ci\u003ePhotocinema: The Creative Edges of Photography and Film\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40138426155123,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5ff3e669-ad3c-43a2-9a39-a5885170cca0.jpg?v=1654349569","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/post-westerns-cinema-region-west-9780803234765","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}