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Author Meeuf, Russell, 1981-

Title John Wayne's world [electronic resource] : transnational masculinity in the fifties / by Russell Meeuf.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 213 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Wayne, John, 1907-1979.
Motion picture industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and globalization.
Nineteen fifties.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292747463 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780292747470 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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