Have Gun Will Travel Gaylyn Studlar by Gaylyn Studlar 9780814339770, 9782014954838, 2014954836, 0814339778 instant download after payment.

One of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun-Will Travel
became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star,
Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity. The series offered viewers an
unusual hero in the mysterious, Shakespeare-spouting gunfighter known
only as "Paladin" and garnered a loyal fan base, including a large
female following. In Have Gun-Will Travel,
film scholar Gaylyn Studlar draws on a remarkably wide range of
episodes from the series' six seasons to show its sophisticated
experimentation with many established conventions of the Western.

Studlar begins by exploring how the series made the television Western
sexy, speaking to mid-twentieth century anxieties and aspirations in the
sexual realm through its "dandy" protagonist and more liberal
expectations of female sexuality. She also explores the show's interest
in a variety of historical issues and contemporaneous concerns-including
differing notions of justice and the meaning of racial and cultural
difference in an era marked by the civil rights movement. Through a
production history of Have Gun-Will Travel,
Studlar provides insight into the television industry of the late 1950s
and early 1960s, showing how, in this transition period in which
programming was moving from sponsor to network control, the series' star
exercised controversial influence on his show's aesthetics.

Because Have Gun-Will Travel
was both so popular and so different from its predecessors and rivals,
it presents a unique opportunity to examine what pleasures and
challenges television Westerns could offer their audiences. Fans of the
show as well as scholars of TV history and the Western genre will enjoy
this insightful volume.