The Crowded Prairie - (Cinema and Society) by Michael Coyne (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This text employs the Western as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s. The book focuses on a group of great Westerns, showing how they engaged covertly with such issues as miscegenation, labour-management relations, generational discord, codes of masculinity, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, increasing individual social alienation, and explains why a celebratory genre veered, during a generation of unprecedented power and prosperity, from sagas of national achievement to bleak, virtually asocial visions of life in the United States.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Michael Coyne...heft[s] his pickax in search of intellectual nuggets...<i>The Crowded Prairie's</i> real strength lies in Coyne's passion. <i>The Washington Post</i> <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael Coyne is a writer and film historian. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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