Author: Ken Austin
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456648969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Step Into the Shadows of Deadwood Deadwood—a town steeped in legend—holds its breath as Travis Pearson, reenactor of the infamous Wild Bill Hickok, finds himself ensnared in a historical riddle that blurs the lines between performance and reality, life and death. In the dim light of Saloon No. 10, amidst the applause for a well-recreated death, Travis feels a chilling resonance with his character that cannot be shaken. The echoes of the past, it seems, are not content to remain silent. As unexplained deaths begin to shadow Deadwood once more, whispers of a resurgent curse sweep through the haunted streets. Travis, caught in the heart of the mystery, is forced to confront the possibility that he might be playing a role far beyond the saloon's stage. The pressure mounts when the discovery of an ancient diary links modern tragedies to historical vendettas, suggesting that the violence of the past is leeching into the present. With each passing day, as the body count rises, Travis's dreams are invaded by the ghosts of Deadwood's storied inhabitants, blurring the lines between sleep and wakefulness, between history and horror. His friends, Ted and Charlie, stand by him, determined to help Travis unravel the mystery before the history he loves so dearly consumes him whole. But the closer they get to the truth, the more Travis begins to realize that the key to breaking the curse might require a sacrifice too personal to bear. In a town where every shadow whispers of betrayal and every gust of wind carries the scent of long-buried secrets, Travis must navigate the treacherous waters of legacy and legend. Will he emerge into the light, or will he become another echo in the haunting of Saloon No. 10? Step into the shadows of Deadwood, where the past is alive, and history's dead refuse to rest. The line between the past and present has never been so perilously thin. As Travis stands on the precipice of a discovery that could either liberate or destroy, Deadwood holds its breath, waiting to see whether salvation or damnation waits in the wings. Join Travis as he delves deep into the heart of a curse, where the stakes are life and death, and history itself hangs in the balance.
Deadwood's Revenant
Author: Ken Austin
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456648969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Step Into the Shadows of Deadwood Deadwood—a town steeped in legend—holds its breath as Travis Pearson, reenactor of the infamous Wild Bill Hickok, finds himself ensnared in a historical riddle that blurs the lines between performance and reality, life and death. In the dim light of Saloon No. 10, amidst the applause for a well-recreated death, Travis feels a chilling resonance with his character that cannot be shaken. The echoes of the past, it seems, are not content to remain silent. As unexplained deaths begin to shadow Deadwood once more, whispers of a resurgent curse sweep through the haunted streets. Travis, caught in the heart of the mystery, is forced to confront the possibility that he might be playing a role far beyond the saloon's stage. The pressure mounts when the discovery of an ancient diary links modern tragedies to historical vendettas, suggesting that the violence of the past is leeching into the present. With each passing day, as the body count rises, Travis's dreams are invaded by the ghosts of Deadwood's storied inhabitants, blurring the lines between sleep and wakefulness, between history and horror. His friends, Ted and Charlie, stand by him, determined to help Travis unravel the mystery before the history he loves so dearly consumes him whole. But the closer they get to the truth, the more Travis begins to realize that the key to breaking the curse might require a sacrifice too personal to bear. In a town where every shadow whispers of betrayal and every gust of wind carries the scent of long-buried secrets, Travis must navigate the treacherous waters of legacy and legend. Will he emerge into the light, or will he become another echo in the haunting of Saloon No. 10? Step into the shadows of Deadwood, where the past is alive, and history's dead refuse to rest. The line between the past and present has never been so perilously thin. As Travis stands on the precipice of a discovery that could either liberate or destroy, Deadwood holds its breath, waiting to see whether salvation or damnation waits in the wings. Join Travis as he delves deep into the heart of a curse, where the stakes are life and death, and history itself hangs in the balance.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456648969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Step Into the Shadows of Deadwood Deadwood—a town steeped in legend—holds its breath as Travis Pearson, reenactor of the infamous Wild Bill Hickok, finds himself ensnared in a historical riddle that blurs the lines between performance and reality, life and death. In the dim light of Saloon No. 10, amidst the applause for a well-recreated death, Travis feels a chilling resonance with his character that cannot be shaken. The echoes of the past, it seems, are not content to remain silent. As unexplained deaths begin to shadow Deadwood once more, whispers of a resurgent curse sweep through the haunted streets. Travis, caught in the heart of the mystery, is forced to confront the possibility that he might be playing a role far beyond the saloon's stage. The pressure mounts when the discovery of an ancient diary links modern tragedies to historical vendettas, suggesting that the violence of the past is leeching into the present. With each passing day, as the body count rises, Travis's dreams are invaded by the ghosts of Deadwood's storied inhabitants, blurring the lines between sleep and wakefulness, between history and horror. His friends, Ted and Charlie, stand by him, determined to help Travis unravel the mystery before the history he loves so dearly consumes him whole. But the closer they get to the truth, the more Travis begins to realize that the key to breaking the curse might require a sacrifice too personal to bear. In a town where every shadow whispers of betrayal and every gust of wind carries the scent of long-buried secrets, Travis must navigate the treacherous waters of legacy and legend. Will he emerge into the light, or will he become another echo in the haunting of Saloon No. 10? Step into the shadows of Deadwood, where the past is alive, and history's dead refuse to rest. The line between the past and present has never been so perilously thin. As Travis stands on the precipice of a discovery that could either liberate or destroy, Deadwood holds its breath, waiting to see whether salvation or damnation waits in the wings. Join Travis as he delves deep into the heart of a curse, where the stakes are life and death, and history itself hangs in the balance.
Fatal Revenant
Author: Stephen R. Donaldson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399154461
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Linden Avery returns to the Land in search of her kidnapped mentally ill son, whom she discovers fully healed and at the side of her believed-dead beloved, Thomas Covenant, leading an attack on Revelstone.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399154461
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Linden Avery returns to the Land in search of her kidnapped mentally ill son, whom she discovers fully healed and at the side of her believed-dead beloved, Thomas Covenant, leading an attack on Revelstone.
Dirty Words in Deadwood
Author: Melody Graulich
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803264747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Dirty Words in “Deadwood” showcases literary analyses of the Deadwood television series by leading western American literary critics. Whereas previous reaction to the series has largely addressed the question of historical accuracy rather than intertextuality or literary complexity, Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi’s edited volume brings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood’s representation of the frontier West. As Graulich observes in her introduction: “With its emotional coherence, compelling characterizations, compressed structural brilliance, moral ambiguity, language experiments, interpretation of the past, relevance to the present, and engagement with its literary forebears, Deadwood is an aesthetic triumph as historical fiction and, like much great literature, makes a case for the humanistic value of storytelling.” From previously unpublished interviews with series creator David Milch to explorations of sexuality, disability, cinematic technique, and western narrative, this collection focuses on Deadwood as a series ultimately about the imagination, as a verbal and visual construct, and as a literary masterpiece that richly rewards close analysis and interpretation.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803264747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Dirty Words in “Deadwood” showcases literary analyses of the Deadwood television series by leading western American literary critics. Whereas previous reaction to the series has largely addressed the question of historical accuracy rather than intertextuality or literary complexity, Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi’s edited volume brings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood’s representation of the frontier West. As Graulich observes in her introduction: “With its emotional coherence, compelling characterizations, compressed structural brilliance, moral ambiguity, language experiments, interpretation of the past, relevance to the present, and engagement with its literary forebears, Deadwood is an aesthetic triumph as historical fiction and, like much great literature, makes a case for the humanistic value of storytelling.” From previously unpublished interviews with series creator David Milch to explorations of sexuality, disability, cinematic technique, and western narrative, this collection focuses on Deadwood as a series ultimately about the imagination, as a verbal and visual construct, and as a literary masterpiece that richly rewards close analysis and interpretation.
Straight Outta Deadwood
Author: David Boop
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 1625797397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Things that Go Bump at High Noon! Tales of the Weird Wild West from Charlaine Harris, Mike Resnick, D.J. Butler, Stephen Graham Jones, and more. Baen’s Bestselling Western Fantasy and Horror Anthology Returns for Another Showdown! Once again, we return to the Old West with a new posse of top authors spin tales of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. We take no prisoners as they explore what really was, and mix in what might have been. Charlaine Harris [The Sookie Stackhouse Series, Midnight, Texas] shows us a glimpse inside her new series as a tormented gunfighter faces a true demon of her past. Mike Resnick [The Buntline Special] reveals what Doc Holiday thought was so funny on his last day. Jeffrey Mariotte [Desperados, Graveslingers] introduces us to a man who specializes in pictures of the dead who won’t stay dead. Jane Lindskold [The Firekeeper Saga, The Star Kingdom Series (with David Weber)] teaches us not to underestimate a schoolmarm when her students are in jeopardy. And Shane Hensley [Deadlands] cooks up a stew that threatens to send every famous lawman in history to their graves! Plus, a dozen more stories of how the west was wilder than any history book could contain, such as a new Native American legend by Stephen Graham Jones and a Mormon troubleshooter straddling the line between his faith and the supernatural by D.J. Butler. The west that was rides again with west that could have been in this follow-up to Straight Outta Tombstone! Contributors: Mike Resnick D.J. Butler Jane Lindskold Shane Hensely Jeffrey J. Mariotte Steve Ransic Tem Stephen Graham Jones Derrick Ferguson Frog and Esther Jones Cliff Winnig Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Alex Acks Marsheilla Rockwell Mario Acevedo Betsy Dornbusch Travis Heermann At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Straight Outta Deadwood: "Cross-genre fans will find this anthology enjoyable . . ."—Publishers Weekly About Sequel Straight Outta Tombstone: “The authors were having fun. Even when they are not playing the stories for laughs, they are taking an opportunity to enjoy an opportunity to tell a story with a fresh twist, and expand out of their expected boundaries. Straight Outta Tombstone is a change-up pitch, which will leave readers laughing on occasion, spooked at times, and entertained throughout.”—Daily News of Galveston County
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 1625797397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Things that Go Bump at High Noon! Tales of the Weird Wild West from Charlaine Harris, Mike Resnick, D.J. Butler, Stephen Graham Jones, and more. Baen’s Bestselling Western Fantasy and Horror Anthology Returns for Another Showdown! Once again, we return to the Old West with a new posse of top authors spin tales of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. We take no prisoners as they explore what really was, and mix in what might have been. Charlaine Harris [The Sookie Stackhouse Series, Midnight, Texas] shows us a glimpse inside her new series as a tormented gunfighter faces a true demon of her past. Mike Resnick [The Buntline Special] reveals what Doc Holiday thought was so funny on his last day. Jeffrey Mariotte [Desperados, Graveslingers] introduces us to a man who specializes in pictures of the dead who won’t stay dead. Jane Lindskold [The Firekeeper Saga, The Star Kingdom Series (with David Weber)] teaches us not to underestimate a schoolmarm when her students are in jeopardy. And Shane Hensley [Deadlands] cooks up a stew that threatens to send every famous lawman in history to their graves! Plus, a dozen more stories of how the west was wilder than any history book could contain, such as a new Native American legend by Stephen Graham Jones and a Mormon troubleshooter straddling the line between his faith and the supernatural by D.J. Butler. The west that was rides again with west that could have been in this follow-up to Straight Outta Tombstone! Contributors: Mike Resnick D.J. Butler Jane Lindskold Shane Hensely Jeffrey J. Mariotte Steve Ransic Tem Stephen Graham Jones Derrick Ferguson Frog and Esther Jones Cliff Winnig Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Alex Acks Marsheilla Rockwell Mario Acevedo Betsy Dornbusch Travis Heermann At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Straight Outta Deadwood: "Cross-genre fans will find this anthology enjoyable . . ."—Publishers Weekly About Sequel Straight Outta Tombstone: “The authors were having fun. Even when they are not playing the stories for laughs, they are taking an opportunity to enjoy an opportunity to tell a story with a fresh twist, and expand out of their expected boundaries. Straight Outta Tombstone is a change-up pitch, which will leave readers laughing on occasion, spooked at times, and entertained throughout.”—Daily News of Galveston County
Deadwood or Alive: Otherworld Outlaws 2 (a Weird West Celtic Mythology Adventure)
Author: Tammy Salyer
Publisher: Tammy Salyer
ISBN: 1954113110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Turns out shooting a Pinkerton is still a crime—even if he is a werewolf. Book 2 in the Otherworld Outlaws series, an action-packed romp through the Wild West, loaded with living myths, dark magic, and bloodthirsty monsters aplenty. On the run from US marshals, Lula and her motley crew—Hattie, Toxicore, and Uncle Paddy, lately resurrected as a cat—head for Deadwood. Lula hopes to find Dagda's cauldron before the Morrígan or Brigid does, but sinister crows, diminutive dragons, and folks dropping dead from the unusual illness of being bled dry are just a few of the issues hindering her search. And now she has a bigger problem: her face is on every wanted poster from the Dakota Territories to Boston. Lula’s uncle once told her she was as pretty as a picture, but this isn’t quite the same thing. To clear her name, she would have to convince the law that magic and fairies are just as real as poker and horses. Not likely to happen. With her enemies closing in, she best find that cauldron before the law or the warring queens of the Tuatha Dé Danann find her. But finding the cauldron and taking it are two different things… especially when its monstrous ancient guardian has other ideas. Don’t miss any of the magic-packed Otherworld Outlaws series GNOME ON THE RANGE • HEX ’EM HIGH Fans of the following authors may also enjoy this Weird West Celtic Mythology series: Amy Campbell Chris Lowry David Boop Kevin Hearne Lindsay Pogue M.M. Crumley Mike Resnick Neil Adam Ray Fans of the following books and series may also enjoy this Weird West Celtic Mythology series: A Storm of Shattered Silver, Besieged, Breaker, Carter Quinn's Quirks and Curios, Dreamer, Dust and Shadow, Earth and Ember, Effigist, Fistful of Magic, Forgotten Lands, Gold Glamour's Ghost, Hammered, Hexed, Hounded, Hunted, Ink & Sigil, Needs Must, Old Magic, Open Meadows, Paper & Blood, Scourged, Shattered, Sheriff Ben Logan Series, Shimmer to Yuma, Staked, Stolen Relics, Straight Outta Tombstone, Tales of the Outlaw Mages, The Buntline Special, The Doctor and the Dinosaurs, The Doctor and the Kid, The Doctor and the Rough Ride, The Ever Emerald Edge, The Iron Druid Chronicles, The Magic Bunch, The Man Who Shot Alan Whitney, The Spectacular Seven, The Unforgotten, The Wanderers, The Widow's Son, Tide and Tempest, Trapped, Tricked, Unicorn Western, Zarahemla Two Crows Keywords related to this Weird West Celtic Mythology series: Action & Adventure Fiction, Alternate History Fantasy, Celtic Mythology, Dragons, Dragons And Mythical Creatures, Druids, Dryads, Elementals, Enchanter, Enchantress, Essential Reads, Fae, Fairies, Fairy, Fantasy Action & Adventure, Fantasy Adventure, Fantasy Series, Fantasy Stories, Fantasy Suspense, Fantasy Thriller, Fantasy Western, Folklore, Gods And Goddesses, Gritty Fantasy Epic Series Books Adventure, Gunfight, Gunslinger, Historical Fantasy, Humorous Fantasy, Mage, Magic, Magical Adventures, Magical Realism, Magician, Metaphysical Fantasy, Monsters, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Mythology & Folk Tales, Myths And Legends, Occult, Occult Horror, Occult Suspense, Outlaw, Paranormal, Paranormal Horror, Paranormal Horror, Paranormal Supsense, Paranormal Supsense, Paranormal Thriller, Paranormal Thriller, Popular Series, Quest, six shooter, Sorcerer, Spells & Charms, Strong Female Lead, Supernatural, Supernatural Mysteries, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Top Rated Books, Tuatha De Danann, Urban Fantasy, Warlock, Weird West, Weird Western, Weird Western Fantasy, Werewolf & Shifter Mysteries, Werewolf & Shifter Thrillers, Werewolf & Shifter Thrillers, Werewolves, Witch & Wizard Mysteries, Witch & Wizard Thrillers, Witch & Wizard Thrillers, Witches, Wizards, Wyrd West, Ya Fantasy, Ya Fantasy Books, Young Adult Fantasy Action & Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy Ebooks, Young Adult Humorous Fiction, Young Adult Series, Young Adult Wizards & Witches Fantasy Young Adult Omnibus, Young Adult Bundle, Young Adult Box Set, Omnibus Set, Omnibus Collection, Omnibus Bundle, Fantasy Omnibus, Fantasy Bundle, Fantasy Box Sets, Fantasy Box Set, Dragon Omnibus, Dragon Box Set, Collections & Anthologies, Boxed Set, Best Rated Omnibus Young Adult Dragon
Publisher: Tammy Salyer
ISBN: 1954113110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Turns out shooting a Pinkerton is still a crime—even if he is a werewolf. Book 2 in the Otherworld Outlaws series, an action-packed romp through the Wild West, loaded with living myths, dark magic, and bloodthirsty monsters aplenty. On the run from US marshals, Lula and her motley crew—Hattie, Toxicore, and Uncle Paddy, lately resurrected as a cat—head for Deadwood. Lula hopes to find Dagda's cauldron before the Morrígan or Brigid does, but sinister crows, diminutive dragons, and folks dropping dead from the unusual illness of being bled dry are just a few of the issues hindering her search. And now she has a bigger problem: her face is on every wanted poster from the Dakota Territories to Boston. Lula’s uncle once told her she was as pretty as a picture, but this isn’t quite the same thing. To clear her name, she would have to convince the law that magic and fairies are just as real as poker and horses. Not likely to happen. With her enemies closing in, she best find that cauldron before the law or the warring queens of the Tuatha Dé Danann find her. But finding the cauldron and taking it are two different things… especially when its monstrous ancient guardian has other ideas. Don’t miss any of the magic-packed Otherworld Outlaws series GNOME ON THE RANGE • HEX ’EM HIGH Fans of the following authors may also enjoy this Weird West Celtic Mythology series: Amy Campbell Chris Lowry David Boop Kevin Hearne Lindsay Pogue M.M. Crumley Mike Resnick Neil Adam Ray Fans of the following books and series may also enjoy this Weird West Celtic Mythology series: A Storm of Shattered Silver, Besieged, Breaker, Carter Quinn's Quirks and Curios, Dreamer, Dust and Shadow, Earth and Ember, Effigist, Fistful of Magic, Forgotten Lands, Gold Glamour's Ghost, Hammered, Hexed, Hounded, Hunted, Ink & Sigil, Needs Must, Old Magic, Open Meadows, Paper & Blood, Scourged, Shattered, Sheriff Ben Logan Series, Shimmer to Yuma, Staked, Stolen Relics, Straight Outta Tombstone, Tales of the Outlaw Mages, The Buntline Special, The Doctor and the Dinosaurs, The Doctor and the Kid, The Doctor and the Rough Ride, The Ever Emerald Edge, The Iron Druid Chronicles, The Magic Bunch, The Man Who Shot Alan Whitney, The Spectacular Seven, The Unforgotten, The Wanderers, The Widow's Son, Tide and Tempest, Trapped, Tricked, Unicorn Western, Zarahemla Two Crows Keywords related to this Weird West Celtic Mythology series: Action & Adventure Fiction, Alternate History Fantasy, Celtic Mythology, Dragons, Dragons And Mythical Creatures, Druids, Dryads, Elementals, Enchanter, Enchantress, Essential Reads, Fae, Fairies, Fairy, Fantasy Action & Adventure, Fantasy Adventure, Fantasy Series, Fantasy Stories, Fantasy Suspense, Fantasy Thriller, Fantasy Western, Folklore, Gods And Goddesses, Gritty Fantasy Epic Series Books Adventure, Gunfight, Gunslinger, Historical Fantasy, Humorous Fantasy, Mage, Magic, Magical Adventures, Magical Realism, Magician, Metaphysical Fantasy, Monsters, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Mythology & Folk Tales, Myths And Legends, Occult, Occult Horror, Occult Suspense, Outlaw, Paranormal, Paranormal Horror, Paranormal Horror, Paranormal Supsense, Paranormal Supsense, Paranormal Thriller, Paranormal Thriller, Popular Series, Quest, six shooter, Sorcerer, Spells & Charms, Strong Female Lead, Supernatural, Supernatural Mysteries, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Top Rated Books, Tuatha De Danann, Urban Fantasy, Warlock, Weird West, Weird Western, Weird Western Fantasy, Werewolf & Shifter Mysteries, Werewolf & Shifter Thrillers, Werewolf & Shifter Thrillers, Werewolves, Witch & Wizard Mysteries, Witch & Wizard Thrillers, Witch & Wizard Thrillers, Witches, Wizards, Wyrd West, Ya Fantasy, Ya Fantasy Books, Young Adult Fantasy Action & Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy Ebooks, Young Adult Humorous Fiction, Young Adult Series, Young Adult Wizards & Witches Fantasy Young Adult Omnibus, Young Adult Bundle, Young Adult Box Set, Omnibus Set, Omnibus Collection, Omnibus Bundle, Fantasy Omnibus, Fantasy Bundle, Fantasy Box Sets, Fantasy Box Set, Dragon Omnibus, Dragon Box Set, Collections & Anthologies, Boxed Set, Best Rated Omnibus Young Adult Dragon
Deadwood
Author: Pete Dexter
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400079713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400079713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.
Cowboy Politics
Author: John S. Nelson
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498549489
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The politics of popular westerns are surprising in substance and significance, especially of late. Cowboy Politics shows how westerns in literature, cinema, and television face the challenges of Western Civilization even more than the perils of American frontiers. Its strategy is to compare key westerns with major theories of modern and postmodern politics. So it analyzes novels from Owen Wister to Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry. It focuses on films from the western revival beginning in the 1990s and featuring Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, while its interest in TV stretches from singing cowboys and Gunsmoke to David Milch’s Deadwood. Critics are apt to find in westerns the modern politics of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. They tap devices of individuality, rationality, contract, sovereign enforcement, and representation to overcome the chaotic violence of a wild zone. Cowboy Politics examines how westerns often find such measures insufficient to tame the West as a culture of honor and anger that deteriorates into feud-al vengeance. Instead westerns see the West as the sunset land that is already growing old and moving on. So westerns seek fresh starts informed by comparing civilizations more than demonizing savages. Westerns worry that modern politics devolve into exploitation, oppression, spectacle, and terror. So they pursue supplements in such postmodern politics as republicanism, perfectionism, populism, feminism, and environmentalism. Especially westerns explore politics of persuasive speech-in-action-in-public, doing beauty, and self-reliance in the modes of Hannah Arendt and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The first two chapters of Cowboy Politics explain how westerns do political theory for popular audiences by making many of our myths: the symbolic stories of individuals and communities which we live daily. The next three chapters trace the initially modern theories of government in many westerns. Then western turns to republican honor, rhetoric, response-ability, and character tracking occupy the following four chapters. And these set the stage for another four chapters on western attention to postmodern terror, mythmaking, celebrity, spectacle, and forgiveness. The final two chapters analyze how “late,” “satirical,” and “transformative” westerns develop realist defenses for their surprisingly postmodern politics.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498549489
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The politics of popular westerns are surprising in substance and significance, especially of late. Cowboy Politics shows how westerns in literature, cinema, and television face the challenges of Western Civilization even more than the perils of American frontiers. Its strategy is to compare key westerns with major theories of modern and postmodern politics. So it analyzes novels from Owen Wister to Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry. It focuses on films from the western revival beginning in the 1990s and featuring Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, while its interest in TV stretches from singing cowboys and Gunsmoke to David Milch’s Deadwood. Critics are apt to find in westerns the modern politics of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. They tap devices of individuality, rationality, contract, sovereign enforcement, and representation to overcome the chaotic violence of a wild zone. Cowboy Politics examines how westerns often find such measures insufficient to tame the West as a culture of honor and anger that deteriorates into feud-al vengeance. Instead westerns see the West as the sunset land that is already growing old and moving on. So westerns seek fresh starts informed by comparing civilizations more than demonizing savages. Westerns worry that modern politics devolve into exploitation, oppression, spectacle, and terror. So they pursue supplements in such postmodern politics as republicanism, perfectionism, populism, feminism, and environmentalism. Especially westerns explore politics of persuasive speech-in-action-in-public, doing beauty, and self-reliance in the modes of Hannah Arendt and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The first two chapters of Cowboy Politics explain how westerns do political theory for popular audiences by making many of our myths: the symbolic stories of individuals and communities which we live daily. The next three chapters trace the initially modern theories of government in many westerns. Then western turns to republican honor, rhetoric, response-ability, and character tracking occupy the following four chapters. And these set the stage for another four chapters on western attention to postmodern terror, mythmaking, celebrity, spectacle, and forgiveness. The final two chapters analyze how “late,” “satirical,” and “transformative” westerns develop realist defenses for their surprisingly postmodern politics.
Moving in Memory
Author: Julia Randall
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807113882
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Moving in Memory, Julia Randall’s sixth volume of poems, explores our relationship to nature, to art, and to our past selves. In these poems, Randall’s familiar terrain—the woods, streams, and fields of Maryland—becomes our own. She takes us “through the fields/ of Queen Anne’s Lace and clover,” through woods filled with rock maple and sassafras, to places she discovered as a child. I am Piedmont born and bred between far hills and sea, great hardwoods overhead, and waters gently falling down the Bay But these poems also express Randall’s uneasiness with trying to exist in a world increasingly divorced from nature. They spring from a sensibility that pits memory and its recovery in art against the encroachments of commerce and technology. What shall restore cedar and sycamore, sweet springs, the secrets of the forest floor, where now backhoes and scaffoldings and gray computers set us free to manufacture loves and lifeless things along the steely groves where no bird sings? Unmistakably a lyric poet, Randall varies traditional forms in a way that is both reminiscent and original. Her musicality often surprises us into the recognition that poems can still sound like poems. In writing about place, memory, aging, and loss, Julia Randall displays a wide-ranging intelligence, a keen eye, and a necessary anger, as well as joy, humor, and acceptance.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807113882
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Moving in Memory, Julia Randall’s sixth volume of poems, explores our relationship to nature, to art, and to our past selves. In these poems, Randall’s familiar terrain—the woods, streams, and fields of Maryland—becomes our own. She takes us “through the fields/ of Queen Anne’s Lace and clover,” through woods filled with rock maple and sassafras, to places she discovered as a child. I am Piedmont born and bred between far hills and sea, great hardwoods overhead, and waters gently falling down the Bay But these poems also express Randall’s uneasiness with trying to exist in a world increasingly divorced from nature. They spring from a sensibility that pits memory and its recovery in art against the encroachments of commerce and technology. What shall restore cedar and sycamore, sweet springs, the secrets of the forest floor, where now backhoes and scaffoldings and gray computers set us free to manufacture loves and lifeless things along the steely groves where no bird sings? Unmistakably a lyric poet, Randall varies traditional forms in a way that is both reminiscent and original. Her musicality often surprises us into the recognition that poems can still sound like poems. In writing about place, memory, aging, and loss, Julia Randall displays a wide-ranging intelligence, a keen eye, and a necessary anger, as well as joy, humor, and acceptance.
Storytelling for Film and Television
Author: Ken Dancyger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351245961
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Storytelling for Film and Television is a theory and practice book which offers a definitive introduction to the art of storytelling through writing, directing, and editing. Author Ken Dancyger provides a comprehensive explanation of the tools that underpin successful narrative filmmaking and television production. The book takes a unique approach by connecting the different phases of the creative process of film and television production. It shows how writing, directing, and editing all contribute to the process of storytelling and function together to advance the narrative goals of a screenplay, to tell the best story. A case study approach provides numerous examples of effectiveness and brings together the core areas of aesthetics and production to make these concepts more accessible. Case studies include classic and modern films, foreign films, limited and series television, with examples including Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Revenant, and Son of Saul. This is the ideal text for film and television production students at all levels. It is written in a style which makes it accessible to anybody interested in learning more about the storytelling process and is written for a global audience addressing a global industry.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351245961
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Storytelling for Film and Television is a theory and practice book which offers a definitive introduction to the art of storytelling through writing, directing, and editing. Author Ken Dancyger provides a comprehensive explanation of the tools that underpin successful narrative filmmaking and television production. The book takes a unique approach by connecting the different phases of the creative process of film and television production. It shows how writing, directing, and editing all contribute to the process of storytelling and function together to advance the narrative goals of a screenplay, to tell the best story. A case study approach provides numerous examples of effectiveness and brings together the core areas of aesthetics and production to make these concepts more accessible. Case studies include classic and modern films, foreign films, limited and series television, with examples including Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Revenant, and Son of Saul. This is the ideal text for film and television production students at all levels. It is written in a style which makes it accessible to anybody interested in learning more about the storytelling process and is written for a global audience addressing a global industry.
The Evolution of the Western
Author: Martin Kich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440876185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Explore the enduring influence of the Western – the quintessential American film genre – and its essential role in US and world culture. Follow the entire history of the Western, from its roots in the pulp novels of the early 20th century, through the serials of the silent era and the mid-century classics of John Ford and John Wayne, to the recent award-winning revisionist works, like Unforgiven and No Country for Old Men, that provide a more complex and nuanced take on history of the West. Perhaps more than any other pop culture genre, the Western allows us to view how Americans have seen themselves over the last 150 years. Build a foundational understanding of the genre with 5 introductory essays, exploring the development of the Western Mythos in the traditional Western, the heyday of the traditional Western in the post-WWII period, revisionist Westerns and the counterculture, race and identify, and the Western outside of the USA. Close to 100 encyclopedia entries examine one or more movies or television programs and show how their creation and plots demonstrate the overall evolution of the genre. Easily compare films and TV programs – from early genre favorites such as Gunsmoke to more recent releases like Django Unchained – with essential facts boxes accompanying each entry, with information on the director, studio, key actors, and box office receipts.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440876185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Explore the enduring influence of the Western – the quintessential American film genre – and its essential role in US and world culture. Follow the entire history of the Western, from its roots in the pulp novels of the early 20th century, through the serials of the silent era and the mid-century classics of John Ford and John Wayne, to the recent award-winning revisionist works, like Unforgiven and No Country for Old Men, that provide a more complex and nuanced take on history of the West. Perhaps more than any other pop culture genre, the Western allows us to view how Americans have seen themselves over the last 150 years. Build a foundational understanding of the genre with 5 introductory essays, exploring the development of the Western Mythos in the traditional Western, the heyday of the traditional Western in the post-WWII period, revisionist Westerns and the counterculture, race and identify, and the Western outside of the USA. Close to 100 encyclopedia entries examine one or more movies or television programs and show how their creation and plots demonstrate the overall evolution of the genre. Easily compare films and TV programs – from early genre favorites such as Gunsmoke to more recent releases like Django Unchained – with essential facts boxes accompanying each entry, with information on the director, studio, key actors, and box office receipts.