{"product_id":"9781860642593","title":"The Crowded Prairie : American National Identity in the Hollywood Western","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Crowded Prairie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Michael D. Coyne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from \"Stagecoach\" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s. The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, increasing individual social alienation, and explains why a celebratory genre veered, during a generation of unprecedented power and prosperity, from sagas of national achievement to bleak, virtually asocial visions of life in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781860642593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"I.B. Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40594524963022,"sku":"9781860642593","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781860642593","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}