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"'Matthew Carter's Myth of the Western provides rich, detailed readings of exemplary Westerns from critical periods of the genre's history. More important, he analyzes the scholarship on the Western, including the perspectives of New Western History, and deconstructs the division of the genre into classical, revisionist, and post Westerns.' - Patrick McGee, William A. Read Professor of English, Louisiana State University ""There is critical value in the complexities that Myth of the Western identifies and acknowledges within individual Westerns and the genre as a whole."" -- Pete Falconer, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television"

'Matthew Carter's Myth of the Western provides rich, detailed readings of exemplary Westerns from critical periods of the genre's history. More important, he analyzes the scholarship on the Western, including the perspectives of New Western History, and deconstructs the division of the genre into classical, revisionist, and post Westerns.' - Patrick McGee, William A. Read Professor of English, Louisiana State University There is critical value in the complexities that Myth of the Western identifies and acknowledges within individual Westerns and the genre as a whole. -- Pete Falconer, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

'Matthew Carter's Myth of the Western provides rich, detailed readings of exemplary Westerns from critical periods of the genre's history. More important, he analyzes the scholarship on the Western, including the perspectives of New Western History, and deconstructs the division of the genre into classical, revisionist, and post Westerns.' - Patrick McGee, William A. Read Professor of English, Louisiana State University

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Matthew Carter teaches film studies, US literature, and critical theory at the University of Essex.

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