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Although Americans are no longer compelled to learn Greek and Latin, classical ideals remain embedded in American law and politics, philosophy, oratory, history and especially popular culture. In the Western genre, many film and television directors (such as John Ford, Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah) have drawn inspiration from antiquity, and the classical values and influences in their work have shaped our conceptions of the West for years.
This thought-provoking, first-of-its-kind collection of essays celebrates, affirms and critiques the West's relationship with the classical world. Explored are films like Cheyenne Autumn, The Wild Bunch, The Track of the Cat, Trooper Hook, The Furies, Heaven's Gate, and Slow West, as well as serials like Gunsmoke and Lonesome Dove.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: America and Antiquity: Force and Thumos in the Western
Sue Matheson
Prologos
West of "Them": Classical Allusions in Western Film
Kirsten Day
Aristotle and the Wild West: The Western as a Rhetorical Device
Chris Yogerst
Tragic Trails in Indian Country
Chorei, Satyr-Drama, and the Birth of Tragedy in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Sue Matheson
Peckinpah and the Problem of Catharsis; or: How Well Does The Wild Bunch Fit Aristotle's Poetics?
Martin M. Winkler
Euripidean Sunsets: Tragedy, the Western, and Conflicts Within
Maria Cecília de Miranda N. Coelho
Cowboys and Catharsis
Pharmakos and the Bad Citizen Topos in Charles Marquis Warren's Westerns: Trooper Hook, Tension at Table Rock and Charro!
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
"Scratched blood": The Erinyes and Anthony Mann's The Furies
Kelly MacPhail
The Splendor of Bart Allison: Antigone and the Tragic Western Hero
Christopher Minz
Homer on Horseback
Homer's Odyssey and Cattle Drive Westerns
Andrew Howe
Lonesome Dove: Uva uvam vivendo varia fit and Tragic Elements in a Western Epic
Benjamin Hufbauer
Blondie's Odyssey: The Homeric Journey and American Mythmaking in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Christopher J. Olson
Writing and Rewriting History: Myth in the Iliad and Heaven's Gate
Brian Brems
Catastrophe
Gunsmoke's Boot Hill and the Classical Underworld
Jim Daems
Orpheus on the Frontier: Slow West
Cynthia J. Miller
Influence of Classical Literature in Western Film: A Selective Bibliography
Camille McCutcheon
About the Contributors
Index
