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Westerns: Paperback Novels and Movies from Hollywood
Whatever we might think of them, popular Westerns, both movies and cheap paperbacks on the newsstand racks, have had a powerful impact on both U.S. culture and Western European culture in general. Collected here are new studies from a variety of critical approaches of popular Westerns by scholars from the U.S., the U.K., and Europe, new studies of classic William S. Hart, John Ford, Clint Eastwood, and Sam Peckinpah film Westerns as well as new studies of seldom studied writers such as James Warner Bellah, Clarence Mulford, Charles Portis, and Oakley Hall.
235 pages, ebook
First published December 1, 2007
About the author
Paul Varner
11 books13 followersAnnouncement: Cambridge Scholars Press has just published my latest book : Beatniks and Coaboys: Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West (Summer 2020). Dorn and Olson, of course were key figures in early American postmodern/avant garde poetics. Dorn's Gunslinger is arguably the most important epic poem to come out of the Beat Movement in the West. This is my third book with Cambridge Scholars.
I was born in West Texas. After completing my undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Christian University in 1973, I attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1973 to 1981 where, along with my wife, Jeanine, I completed my MA and my PhD in English; Jeanine and I received our PhDs the same day.
Over the years I taught at Rochester College, Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma Christian University, and for a number of years served as the Scholar-in-Residence for the English Department at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. Since my primary duties as Scholar-in-Residence involved research, writing, and teaching in areas of my research, I managed to write a number of books and to be active in organizations like the Western Literature Association and the Southwest and Texas Popular Culture Association.
Jeanine and I have two adult children—Bart, a musician, and Tess, a philosopher. Most of my books have been about popular Westerns--novels and movies. But I have also published widely on 18th-century English literature, current American poets, literature of the Beat Generation, and the Romantic Movement.
My books on Westerns are:
New Wests and Post-Wests: The American West in Literature and Film (Cambridge Scholars Press 2013)
Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
Sooner Cinema, contributor (Forty-sixth State Press, 2009)
Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) ; Also issued in paperback as Westerns A-Z.
Westerns: Movies from Hollywood and Paperback Novels (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)
Other books include:
Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)
Historical Dictionary of Literature of the Beat Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)
My Amazon Authors Page: amazon.com/author/paulvarner
I was born in West Texas. After completing my undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Christian University in 1973, I attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1973 to 1981 where, along with my wife, Jeanine, I completed my MA and my PhD in English; Jeanine and I received our PhDs the same day.
Over the years I taught at Rochester College, Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma Christian University, and for a number of years served as the Scholar-in-Residence for the English Department at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. Since my primary duties as Scholar-in-Residence involved research, writing, and teaching in areas of my research, I managed to write a number of books and to be active in organizations like the Western Literature Association and the Southwest and Texas Popular Culture Association.
Jeanine and I have two adult children—Bart, a musician, and Tess, a philosopher. Most of my books have been about popular Westerns--novels and movies. But I have also published widely on 18th-century English literature, current American poets, literature of the Beat Generation, and the Romantic Movement.
My books on Westerns are:
New Wests and Post-Wests: The American West in Literature and Film (Cambridge Scholars Press 2013)
Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
Sooner Cinema, contributor (Forty-sixth State Press, 2009)
Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) ; Also issued in paperback as Westerns A-Z.
Westerns: Movies from Hollywood and Paperback Novels (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)
Other books include:
Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)
Historical Dictionary of Literature of the Beat Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)
My Amazon Authors Page: amazon.com/author/paulvarner
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