{"product_id":"spectral-west","title":"Spectral West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThese dark and sinister undertones often exist in Western narratives to draw attention to the ever-present issue of death and its haunting resonance which characters encounter. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis book examines this through key historic moments in Western film and its contemporary incarnations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe book detects imposing correlations in themes and currents between the Gothic and the Western relating to existential crisis and a loss of faith in ideologies and  institutions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e These themes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003erepresent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e the tensions between the old and the new, the deranged insistence on civility and order in a chaotic landscape, disillusionment and the shattering of faith in the natural order, and even nature  and order themselves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Western, just like the Gothic tale, reminds us that new frontiers are mired in the past, and optimism and survival are hunted down and haunted by guilt-ridden past and passed anxieties and traumas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193701835134,"sku":"NW9781839987922","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781839987922.jpg?v=1778547877","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/spectral-west","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}