DREAM WEST: POLITICS AND RELIGION IN COWBOY MOVIES
Book ID/图书代码： 13590013B63282
English Summary/英文概要： While political liberals celebrated the end of “cowboy politics” with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still vociferously support “cowboy” values such as small government, low taxes, free-market capitalism, and the right to bear arms. Yet, as Douglas Brode argues in this paradigm-shifting book, these supposedly cowboy or “Old West” values hail not so much from the actual American frontier of the nineteenth century as from Hollywood’s portrayal of it in the twentieth century. And a close reading of Western films and TV shows reveals a much more complex picture than the romanticized, simplistic vision espoused by the conservative right.
Examining dozens of Westerns, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Red River, 3:10 to Yuma (old and new), The Wild Ones, High Noon, My Darling Clementine, The Alamo, and No Country for Old Men, Brode demonstrates that the genre (with notable exceptions that he fully covers) was the product of Hollywood liberals who used it to project a progressive agenda on issues such as gun control, environmental protection, respect for non-Christian belief systems, and community cohesion versus rugged individualism. Challenging us to rethink everything we thought we knew about the genre, Brode argues that the Western stands for precisely the opposite of what most people today—whether they love it or hate it—believe to be the essential premise of “the only truly, authentically, and uniquely American narrative form.”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在政治自由派庆祝随着奥巴马的当选带来的“牛仔政治”的结束时，茶党和其他志同道合的团体中的保守派仍然叫嚣着支持“牛仔”的价值观，如小政府，低税率，自由市场资本主义和携带武器的权利。然而，正如道格拉斯•卜若德在这本范式转换的书中所指出的，这些所谓的牛仔或“老西部”的价值观并没有向人们展现二十世纪好莱坞电影中所描述的十九世纪的美国边境场景。细读西方电影和电视节目，会发现它们揭示了比保守党右翼所支持的浪漫简单的视觉化更为复杂的含义。
这本书剖析了几十部西部片，包括《在O.K.科拉尔的枪战》、《红河》、《3:10至尤马（新老）》、《我未成年》、《正午》、《侠骨柔情》、《阿拉莫》和《老无所依》，卜若德展示了好莱坞自由派的产品（就连值得注意的例外他也完全覆盖了）。该流派用电影来影射被提到议程上的事情，如枪支管制，环境保护，尊重非基督教信仰体系和社区凝聚力与个人主义。这本书提醒我们重新认识这些流派，卜若德认为西部电影的主张恰好是今天大多数人所反对的——不管他们是爱它还是恨它——即使人们相信那是唯一真实、权威和独特的美国精神。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 卜若德是一个小说家，图形小说家，剧作家，编剧，电影史学家，屡获殊荣的记者和教育家。他目前任教于锡拉丘兹大学纽豪斯学院的公共信息交流学院，得克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥校区和圣母湖大学。他写了很多书，包括《小屏幕的流星》：1946年至今的关于西方电视演员的百科全书；《从沃尔特到伍德斯托克》：迪斯尼如何创造了反主流文化；《多元文化和老鼠》：迪斯尼娱乐中的种族和性别。更多信息请访问：http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/brodre#sthash.WhI9fmqy.dpuf
Brode is a novelist, graphic novelist, produced playwright, produced screenwriter, film historian, award-winning working journalist, and award-winning educator. He currently teaches at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Our Lady of the Lake University. His many books include Shooting Stars of the Small Screen: Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors, 1946–Present; From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture; and Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment. - See more at: http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/brodre#sthash.WhI9fmqy.dpuf
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