The Master Film is a Western : The Mythology of the American West in the Cities of the Red Night Trilogy

This essay traces the vestiges of Western literary and cinematic tropes in Cities of the Red Night, and discusses the development of the Master Film and the dominance of the Western genre in The Place of Dead Roads and some faint echoes of the mythology of the American West in the last book, The Wes...

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Published in:	European Journal of American Studies
Main Author:	Michael J. Prince
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	European Association for American Studies 2011-11-01
Subjects:	Cities of the Red Night trilogy Cities of the Red Night The Place of Dead Roads The Western Lands Master Film Western genre
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9412

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