Mirror for Prewar America : Stagecoach and the Western, 1939-1941 -- Puritan Paradingms : My Darling Clementine and Duel in the Sun -- The Lonely Crowd, Catholicism and Consensun on the Prairie : Red River, Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon -- Dysfunctional Family Structures in Classic Westerns, 1950-1961 : The Gunfighter, Shane, The Searchers and The Last Sunset -- Politics and codes of Masculinity in Late 1950s Star Westerns : The Big country and Warlock -- No More West to Win : How the West Was Won ans the Elegiac Westerns of 1962 -- A Genre in Flux, a Nation in Turmoil : The Vietnam-ization of the Western in Mid-1960s America -- Receding Frontiers, narrowing Options : The Wild Bunch and the Western in Richard Nixon's America -- Legends Revisited, Legends Revised in "Bicentennial Westerns" " Buffalo Bill and the Indians, The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Shootist

1. Western films -- History and criticism
2. Mass media and culture -- United States
3. Western films -- Social aspects -- United States
4. National characteristics
5. American
6. in motion pictures