| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western. By Patrick McGee. (Malden: Blackwell, 2007. xviii, 262 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 978-1-4051-3964-9. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4051-3965-6.)

Unmasking the hypocrisy of western film is a time-honored tradition in American letters. Even as the genre emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, so too did its critics, noting its historical inaccuracies, its fakery, and its pandering to what the cognoscenti deemed the bourgeois tastes of the viewing public. Patrick McGee, a professor of English at Louisiana State University, joins this chorus with his belief that "some of the most popular and critically interesting westerns ever made express ideological tensions that are associated with the class system and the antagonism of class subjects" (p. xvii).

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