Placing man in the New West: Masculinities of the Last Picture Show

GeoJournal

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-288

  Holmes, Grayson ^a   Zonn, Leo ^b   Cravey, Altha J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cinematic geographies; Gender; Masculinities; Old West New West; Places of contestation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MASCULINITIES; PICTURE SHOW;

MOTION PICTURE SCREENS;

ART; GENDER ROLE; MEDIA ROLE;

EID: 3442898850     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GEJO.0000026701.67516.b2     Document Type: Review

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