'The Boys Can Kill': The 1970s Cycle of Youth Westerns. Issue 1 (October 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'The Boys Can Kill': The 1970s Cycle of Youth Westerns. Issue 1 (October 2019)
- Main Title:
- 'The Boys Can Kill'
- Authors:
- Wallin, Zoë
Godfrey, Nicholas - Abstract:
- Abstract : In the late 1960s, Hollywood had the youth demographic in its sights. In 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid proved that Westerns could appeal to this market, and sparked a cycle of youth Westerns. The cycle framework provides a new lens to refocus this group of Westerns. When the films are situated alongside the other production trends and cycles of the period, as they were in the contemporary trade discourses, they emerge as part of a short-lived strategy for financing Western films that targeted the youth market. An industrial and discursive analysis of the marketing and reception of the youth Western cycle contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the New Hollywood period.
- Is Part Of:
- Film studies. Volume 20:Issue 1(2019)
- Journal:
- Film studies
- Issue:
- Volume 20:Issue 1(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 20, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0020-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 1
- Page End:
- 20
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10
- Subjects:
- Hollywood -- youth -- Westerns -- cycle
Motion pictures -- History -- Periodicals
Motion pictures -- Periodicals
791.43 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/journals/film ↗
- DOI:
- 10.7227/FS.20.0001 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1469-0314
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- Legaldeposit
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