Grandes Temes del
Western
Authors: Various
Publisher: Dolmen
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Pages: 280
ISBN: 978-84-17956-71-4
Available: July 30, 2020
Great western themes: Everything you always wanted to
know about western cinema.
From the very origins of the seventh art to the
irruption of television in the mid-late 1950s, Western remained one of the most popular and
prolific genres in film history and, without a doubt, one of the favorites of
the average viewer. Above all, from the American.
However, those who have reduced it to a childish genre of
mere entertainment, with very stereotypical characters and not too complex
stories that, in most cases, used to be solved with shots, have never been
lacking. In frank opposition to these positions, therefore, this
compendium of Great Western Issues is born.
A work that analyzes –and above all claims– the immense wealth of content that,
in our opinion, Western cinema treasures. Two large axes will serve as a
common thread. On the one hand, the human condition (love, loyalty, courage, justice,
sense of duty, revenge, violence, ambition ...) and, on the other, the national construction of
the United States of America (the fight for land ownership, the conflict with
the natives, the establishment of the law, the limits of its borders, the
economic and technological progress of the country ...).
Values, counter values and archetypes that describe the
epic stories of its founding mythical space and those of its subsequent
revision, this time autumnal and demystifying. After all, as the most
devoted devotees proclaim: "The western is life ...
and life is western."
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