He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western

by Roderick McGillis

He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century's most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. The first serious study of a body of films that was central to the youth of two generations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554580595
• ISBN13: 9781554580590
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"