Melancholy in Hollywood westerns, 1939-1962

This thesis uses the concept of melancholy to extend and develop the critical understanding of the Western genre. It focuses on the various ways in which Westerns made in Hollywood between 1939 and 1962 can be said to express melancholy. It proposes that, during the period in which Western movies we...

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Main Author: Falconer, Peter
Published: University of Warwick 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.535346