Who Shot the Sheriff?: The Rise and Fall of the Television Western (Media and Society Series)

Who Shot the Sheriff?: The Rise and Fall of the Television Western (Media and Society Series)

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This book is a study of the rise and fall of an American genre of entertainment and communication whose symbols and rhetoric helped define American society for decades. Flourishing in the 1950s and 1960s, the television Western has deteriorated to the point where it is now irrelevant and meaningless. Tracing the evolution of the Western from the late 1940s to the 1980s, MacDonald ties the genre to the political innocence and confidence of the Cold War years and suggests that the social reevaluations that began in the 1960s undermined the believability of Westerns and their entertainment value.

Who Shot the Sheriff?: The Rise and Fall of the Television Western (Media and Society Series),J. Fred MacDonald,Praeger Publishers,0275923266,Communication,Language Arts & Disciplines,Sociology,Television - General,Television Plays And Programs,Unassigned Title,United States,Western television programs,Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication

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