ZUR 393n: The American West and the Western Film

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COURSE READINGS


Brode, Douglas.  "Don't Fence Me In: Rugged Individualism and Open Range."

            Dream West: Politics and Religion in Cowboy Movies.  Austin: U. of Texas P.,

            2013: 95-105.


Buscombe, Edward.  "Is the Western about American History?"  Crossing Frontiers:

            Intercultural Perspectives on the Western.  Eds. Thomas Klein, Ivo Ritzer, and

            Peter W. Schulze.  Marburg, Germany: Schüren, 2012: 13-24.


Cook, Pam.  "Women and the Western."  The Western Reader.  Eds. Jim Kitses and

            Gregg Rickman.  New York: Proscenium, 1998: 293-300.


Desser, David.  "Kurosawa's Eastern 'Western': Sanjuro and the Influence of Shame."

            Film Criticism 8, 1 (Fall 1983): 54-65.


Dickson, Simon.  "Industrial Change and Historical Revision in The Assassination of

            Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."  Film Matters  3,2 (Summer 2012):

            64-69.


Indick, William. "The Civilized and the Savage."  The Psychology of the Western:  How

            the American Pysche Plays Out  on Screen.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co,

            2008: 34-59.


Kitses, Jim.  "All That Brokeback Allows."  Film Quarterly 60, 3 (Spring 2007): 22-27.


Klein, Thomas.  "Where the West Can Be Staged: Western Landscapes in

            International Cinema."  Crossing Frontiers: Intercultural Perspectives on the

            Western.  Eds. Thomas Klein, Ivo Ritzer, and Peter W. Schulze.  Marburg,

            Germany: Schüren, 2012: 121-133.


Lukas, Blake.  "Saloon Girls and Ranchers' Daughters: The Woman in the Western."

            The Western Reader.  Eds. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman.  New York:

            Proscenium, 1998: 301-320.


McClain, William.  "'Western, Go Home! Sergio Leone and the Death of the Western"

            in American Film Criticism."  Journal of Film and Video 62, 1-2 (Spring-

            Summer 2010): 52-66.


Reed, Toby, and R.J. Thompson.  "The Six-gun Simulacrum: New Metaphors for an

            Old Genre."  Film Criticism 20, 3 (Spring 1996): 52-70.


Thumin, Janet.  "'Maybe He's Tough But He Sure Ain't No Carpenter': Masculinity

            and In/competence in Unforgiven."  The Western Reader.  Eds. Jim Kitses and

            Gregg Rickman.  New York: Proscenium, 1998: 341-354.

Tompkins, Jane.  "Cattle."  West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns.  New York:

            Oxford U.P., 1992: 111-123.


---.  "Horses."  West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns.  New York: Oxford U.P.,

            1992: 89-109.


---. "Landscape."  West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns.  New York: Oxford

            U.P., 1992: 69-87.


---.  "Women and the Language of Men."   West of Everything: The Inner Life of

 Westerns.  New York: Oxford U.P., 1992: 47-67.


Turner, Frederick Jackson.  The Frontier in American History.  [1920.]  Project

            Gutenberg.  Release date: 14 October 2007. [eBook #22994].


Turner, Matthew R.  "Cowboys and Comedy: The Simultaneous Deconstruction and

            Reinforcement of Generic Conventions in the Western Parody."  Film and

            History 33, 2 (2003): 48-54.