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Czechs, the Heroes of the Wild West

Author : Lucie Heck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Czechs, the Heroes of the Wild West written by Lucie Heck and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chapter 1 embraces the history of the settlement of the American West and defines the commonly used terms West, Frontier, and Wild West. At the same time, it explains the starting conditions of Czech immigrants, firstly within the European context, and secondly upon their arrival in the United States. Chapter 2 makes use of contemporary as well as period sources, and maps the arrival and life of the first Czech settlers in the states of Iowa and Nebraska. Chapter 3 considers the literary portrayal of the American West and its heroes and the works of Ole Edvart Rolvaag and Willa Cather. It also touches upon the phenomenon of the American Myth and its subjects. Chapter 4 brings attention to the gender imbalance when portraying the Wild West pioneers and American Myth heroes. At the same time it acknowledges the importance of Willa Cather's regional writing. Her realistic and detailed depiction of the roles and accomplishments of pioneer women presents viable information that can hardly be found or deduced from other sources. With the help of Cather's fiction, an alternative but accurate picture of the West and its inhabitants arises", from introduction.

International Westerns

Author : Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081089288X
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book International Westerns written by Cynthia J. Miller and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired films have played a part in the output of numerous national film traditions, including Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. In International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the significance and meanings of these films, their roots in other media, and their reception in the national industries which gave them form. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: What do Westerns not made in the U.S. reveal? In what ways do they challenge or support the idea of national literatures and cinemas? How do these films negotiate nation, narrative, and genre? Divided into five sections, the twenty essays in this volume look at films from a wide range of national cinemas, such as France (The Adventures of Lucky Luke), Germany (Der Schuh des Maitu), Brazil (O Cangaceiro), Eastern Europe (Lemonade Joe), and of course, Asia (Sukiyaki Western Django). Featuring contributions from a diverse group of international scholars—often writing about Westerns adapted to their own national traditions—these essays address such matters as competing national film traditions, various forms of satire and comedy based on the Western tradition, the range of cultural adaptations of the traditional Western hero, the ties between the nation-state and the outlaw, and Westerns in a variety of unanticipated guises. Representing a broader look at global Westerns than any other single volume to date—and featuring more than 70 illustrations—International Westerns will be of interest to scholars of film, popular culture, and cultural history.

Legendary Heroes of the Wild West

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Legendary Heroes of the Wild West written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heroes of the Wild West

Author : Brian Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Heroes of the Wild West written by Brian Innes and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Creation of the Cowboy Hero

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476618143
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Creation of the Cowboy Hero written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.

The Great Heroes of Wild West (Illustrated)

Author : Clarence Mulford
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026875184
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Great Heroes of Wild West (Illustrated) written by Clarence Mulford and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Great Heroes of Wild West (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Coming of Cassidy and Others Buck Peters, Ranchman Tex The Orphan Clarence E. Mulford (1883–1956) was a prolific author whose short stories and 28 novels were adapted to radio, feature film, television, and comic books, often deviating significantly from the original stories, especially in the character's traits. But more than just writing a very popular series of Westerns, Mulford recreated an entire detailed and authentic world filled with characters drawn from his extensive library research. Excerpt: "The town lay sprawled over half a square mile of alkali plain, its main Street depressing in its width, for those who were responsible for its inception had worked with a generosity born of the knowledge that they had at their immediate and unchallenged disposal the broad lands of Texas and New Mexico on which to assemble a grand total of twenty buildings, four of which were of wood. As this material was scarce, and had to be brought from where the waters of the Gulf…." (Bar-20)

Czechs Won't Get Lost in the World, Let Alone in America

Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546238905
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Czechs Won't Get Lost in the World, Let Alone in America written by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a panorama of the lives of selected personalities, whose roots had origin in the Czech lands and who, in the US, reached extraordinary success and who, with their activities, substantially influenced the growth and development of their new homeland. It is a saga of plain, as well as powerful, people whose influence and importance often exceeded the borders of the US. A great portion of included individuals may be unknown to readers since it concerns persons whose Czech origin was usually not known. The book covers the total period from the times of the discovery of New World to the end of the twentieth century. During the selection, little concern was given to nationalistic or ethnographic criteria, the only prerequisite was that the respected individuals were either born on the territory of the Czech lands or were descendants of emigrants from the Czech lands. The image on the front cover is a portrait of Augustine Herman, Lord of Bohemia Manor, the first documented Czech immigrant in the United States. The portrait comes from his famous Map of Maryland and Virginia, dated 1670. The colorful story of his life would be unbelievable if made into a movie. Pioneer, merchant, explorer, surveyor, map maker, patriot, rebel, diplomat, and finally Lord! Read more about him in the book.

Old Czech Legends

Author : Alois Jirásek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Czech Legends written by Alois Jirásek and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the early 1890s, before Czech independence and in an age of patriotic upsurge and romanticism, these thirty-four tales quite naturally reflect a glorification of the Czech past. While the details of the legends are necessarily archaic, peopled by kings and noblemen, ghosts and magic, the themes are universal. Now at the dawn of a new era of Czech independence, they provide a fascinating new perspective to the contemporary situation.

Rudolf Friml

Author : William A. Everett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252033817
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Rudolf Friml written by William A. Everett and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study devoted to Rudolf Friml's multifaceted musical legacy

An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Czech Fiction

Author : Robert Porter
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837642451
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Czech Fiction written by Robert Porter and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an appraisal od some of the best Czech fiction of the 20th century. After a brief introduction there are chapters on Hasek, Hrabal, Skorecky, Pavel, Klima and a final chapter on Hodrova, Viewegh and Topol.

Velvet Retro

Author : Veronika Pehe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789206286
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Velvet Retro written by Veronika Pehe and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a “retro” fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

The European Experience

Author : Jan Hansen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800648731
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The European Experience written by Jan Hansen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline.

(Un)Following in Winnetou’s Footsteps

Author : Sanja Runtić
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819974216
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book (Un)Following in Winnetou’s Footsteps written by Sanja Runtić and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture. Employing a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach and drawing on a range of media—from literature, comics, and film to photography, painting, and the performative arts—across different historical and cultural backgrounds, it aims to both contribute innovative scholarship on Indigenous studies in Europe and open a new avenue in the field by focusing on Central European settings that have received little or no critical attention to date. The book’s novelty also comes from its focus on the latest developments in the field, including the “Ravensburger/Winnetou controversy,” which swept across Europe in 2022, echoing the 2017 Canadian debate over Indigenous appropriation and free speech. It seeks to provide a sound reference and lay the groundwork for future scholarship by opening up a conversation on how Indigenous identities have been portrayed in Central European literature and media texts. To this end, it not only addresses generalized expectations about North American Indigenous people underlying (Central) European public discourse and imagination but also questions whether and to what extent some of the ingrained stereotypical views and practices, such as hobbyism, have been challenged in the face of Indigenous resurgence, rapidly changing media and information-sharing realities, and global cultural shifts. The closing interview with Métis playwright, actor, and director Bruce Sinclair underscores one of the book’s key goals—to spark an informed cross-cultural dialogue that will reveal the mechanisms of, as well as the contradictions and tensions inherent in, the politics of Indigenous representation in (Central) European cultural industries and encourage (Central) Europeans to confront their own cultural assumptions and attitudes.

The Mythic West in Twentieth-century America

Author : Robert G. Athearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Mythic West in Twentieth-century America written by Robert G. Athearn and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly describes life in the West, and discusses the ephemeral nature of the region, western towns, the tourist industry, agriculture, fiction, and the ecology movement.

So Many Heroes

Author : Alan Levy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150402334X
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book So Many Heroes written by Alan Levy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid description of the Russian-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by Alan Levy, an American journalist who lived there from 1967 to 1971.

The New American West in Literature and the Arts

Author : Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000092836
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American West in Literature and the Arts written by Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the American West is that of a journey. It is the story of a movement, of a geographical and human transition, of the delineation of a route that would soon become a rooted myth. The story of the American West has similarly journeyed across boundaries, in a two-way movement, sometimes feeding the idea of that myth, sometimes challenging it. This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe, in Spain, where the myth traveled, was received, assimilated, and re-presented. It intends to travel back to the West, in a two-way cross-cultural journey, which will hopefully contribute to the delineation of the New—always self-renewing—American West. It includes the work of authors of both sides of the Atlantic ocean who propose a cross-cultural, transdisciplinary dialogue upon the idea, the geography and the representation of the American West.

The American West and the World

Author : Janne Lahti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317285336
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The American West and the World written by Janne Lahti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context.