The Western and political thought : a fistful of politics / Damien K. Picariello, editor.
Picariello, Damien K., editor.
2023
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The Western and political thought : a fistful of politics / Damien K. Picariello, editor.
ISBN
9783031272844 (electronic bk.)
3031272846 (electronic bk.)
9783031272837
3031272838
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27284-4
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
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©2023
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English
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1 online resource (ix, 231 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-031-27284-4 doi
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PS374.W4
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813/.087409
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⁰́b-Political theory explores the concepts (law, violence, property) and principles (share necessities, don⁰́b9t back down, but do get along) that animate western civilization. Picariello⁰́b9s set of studies engage these politics through the colorful characters and exciting scenes in popular westerns. The yield is a great range of insights about well-known classics, provocative additions, and productive connections. Riding this range is a real pleasure ⁰́b4 and education!⁰́b+ ⁰́b4John S. Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Communication, University of Iowa, USA and author of Cowboy Politics ⁰́b-Picariello and his colleagues have prepared a treat for students of political theory and fans of Western movies. Beginning from the premise that Westerns demonstrate the frontier where law, order, justice, equality, freedom, obedience, and violence intertwine, the chapters included analyze a wide range of Westerns building on insights from Plato, Hobbes, Aristotle, and Locke, among others. Readers will find themselves rewatching movies and rereading these essays for years to come.⁰́b+ ⁰́b4Anthony P. Spanakos, Professor of Political Science and Law, Montclair State University, USA ⁰́b-For teachers and students of American politics and cultural studies, political philosophy and theory, American literature and cinema and popular culture, this volume⁰́Œconstitutes an indispensable resource.⁰́b+ ⁰́b4Jeffrey J. Poelvoorde, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Converse University, USA The Western and Political Thought: A Fistful of Politics offers a variety of engaging and entertaining answers to the question: What do Westerns have to do with politics? This collection features contributions from scholars in a variety of fields⁰́b4political science, English, communication studies, and others⁰́b4that explore the connections between Westerns (prose fiction, films, television series, and more) and politics. Damien K. Picariello is Associate Professor of Political Science and Williams Brice Edwards Professor of Social Sciences at the University of South Carolina Sumter, USA. He is the editor of Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and The Politics of Horror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
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Introduction:Thus in the beginning all the World was America
Part I: Foundings, Law, Lawlessness, and John Ford
Chapter 1. Virtue, Tyranny, and Political Rule in David Milch's Deadwood
Chapter 2. Print the Legend: Violence, Virtue, and the Social Contract in Hang 'Em High and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Chapter 3. John Ford's Legendary Western Ambiguity and White Settler Colonialism
Chapter 4. This is Our Town': Political Community in High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Part II: The Western as Mirror and Teacher
Chapter 5. Simmering Madness: Mob Justice and The Ox-Bow Incident
Chapter 6. The Loner on the 'Frontier of Unfilled Hopes and Unfilled Threats': Serling's Old West in Kennedy's New Frontier
Chapter 7. No Man's Land: Film Cycles, Femininity, and Female Empowerment in the Modern Western
Chapter 8. Horse Operas Talk Back: History, Memory, and the Black Cowboy Performing
Chapter 9. Aristophanes in Spurs: Blazing Saddles, Attic Comedy, HBO, and the Politics of Democratic Laughter
Part III: The Adaptable, International West
Chapter 10. Towards Assimilationist Politics on the Filmic Frontier: Mid-Twentieth Century Westerns in Australia
Chapter 11.Ideological Uses of the Western in Film Depictions of Post-War Polish Borderlands
Chapter 12.Magnificent Strangers: Violence and Difference.

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