| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Book Review

Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West. By Robert T. Self. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

In this provocative and absorbing study of one of the most intriguing films to emerge from the tumultuous 1960s and early 1970s, Robert Self presents a mirror of the period, revealing, among other things, how the film reflected the feelings and imagination of the moment. At the core of the film, Self claims, is the theme of negotiation, which had wide resonance in the popular culture of the day. In a short but incisive introduction, he details not only the state of the western film at the time but the state of western historiography, especially from the time of Frederick Jackson Turner's controversial thesis (announcing the closing of the frontier in the 1890s) to the present. In the remaining four chapters, he elaborates on the key issues, creating a framework in which he places Altman's film. The movie, he forcefully argues, not only synthesizes issues from past Westerns, but revises them and dramatizes many volatile, contemporary issues as well.

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