Sixguns and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sixguns and Society write by Will Wright. This book was released on 2023-04-28. Sixguns and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the Western, like any myth, stands between individual human consciousness and society. If a myth is popular, it must somehow appeal to or reinforce the individuals who view it by communicating a symbolic meaning to them. This meaning must, in turn, reflect the particular social institutions and attitudes that have created and continue to nourish the myth. Thus, a myth must tell its viewers about themselves and their society. This study, which takes up the question of the Western as an American myth, will lead us into abstract structural theory as well as economic and political history. Mostly, however, it will take us into the movies, the spectacular and not-so-spectacular sagebrush of the cinema. Unlike most works of social science, the data on which my analysis is based is available to all of my readers, either at the local theater or, more likely, on the late, late show. I hope you will take the opportunity, whenever it is offered, to check my findings and test my interpretations; the effort is small and the rewards are many. And if your wife, husband, mother, or child asks you why you are wasting your time staring at Westerns on TV in the middle of the night, tell them firmly—as I often did—that you are doing research in social science. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977. From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the Western, like any myth, stands between individual human consc
Six Guns and Society
Six Guns and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Guns and Society write by Will Wright. This book was released on 1975. Six Guns and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Six Guns and Society: a Structural Study of a Modern Myth
Six Guns and Society: a Structural Study of a Modern Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Guns and Society: a Structural Study of a Modern Myth write by Will Henry Wright. This book was released on 1972. Six Guns and Society: a Structural Study of a Modern Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Six-Gun Snow White
Six-Gun Snow White - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six-Gun Snow White write by Catherynne M. Valente. This book was released on 2015-11-10. Six-Gun Snow White available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West. Forget the dark, enchanted forest. Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as the seven dwarves. Insert into this scene a plain-spoken, appealing narrator who relates the history of our heroine’s parents—a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him. Although her mother’s life ended as hers began, so begins a remarkable tale: equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, this is an utterly enchanting story…at once familiar and entirely new.
The Wild West
The Wild West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wild West write by Will Wright. This book was released on 2001-06-18. The Wild West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ′An extremely accessible, well structured and imaginative reading of market and social theory in terms of the myth of the Wild West frontier′ New Formations This book, written by the author of the celebrated volume Six Guns and Society, explains why the myth of the Wild West is popular around the world. It shows how the cultural icon of the Wild West speaks to deep desires of individualism and liberty and offers a vision of social contract theory in which a free and equal individual (the cowboy) emerges from the state of nature (the wilderness) to build a civil society (the frontier community). The metaphor of the Wild West retained a commitment to some limited government (law and order) but rejected the notion of the fully codified state as too oppressive (the corrupt sheriff). Compelling and magnificently suggestive, the book unpacks one of the core icons of our time. It is a unique discussion of market and social theory using cultural myth. Will Wright fully explores how issues of individualism, freedom and inequality in the myth of the Wild West connect up with questions of white, male superiority and environmental degradation.
