AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Westerns, U.S. History, and the Cold War1. Cowboys, Free Markets, Wyatt Earp, and Thomas Dunson: My Darling Clementine and Red River2. Melodrama and the Feminine Means to Empire: Duel in the Sun, Pursued, and Fort Apache3. Cold War Westerns and the Law of the Gun: Broken Arrow and The Gunfighter4. Korea, Containment, and Nationalism: High Noon, Shane, and The Searchers5. Modernization Theory, Political Discord, and Intervention: Gunfight at the OK Corral, The Magnificent Seven, and The Alamo6. Imperialist Nostalgia and the Road to Vietnam: Lonely Are the Brave, Ride the High Country, and The Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceNotesBibliographyIndex
STANLEY CORKIN
Cincinnati, Ohio
Corkin is Charles Phelps Taft Professor and Niehoff Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Departments of History and English at the University of Cincinnati. His previous books include Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s, Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History, and Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States: Cinema, Literature, and Culture.
