Steaming Torsos
J. Hoberman, 6 February 1997
Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film
by Lee Clark Mitchell.
Chicago, 352 pp., £23.95, November 1996,0 226 53234 8 Show More
by Lee Clark Mitchell.
Chicago, 352 pp., £23.95, November 1996,
“... from James Fenimore Cooper through Owen Wister, Zane Grey and John Ford to Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. His subject is the well-known tautology that a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. For Mitchell, the Western novel is essentially theatrical – a stage on which male identity is enacted, as well as a form of cinema avant la lettre. He ... ”