{"id":1728,"date":"2018-10-31T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2018-11-22T18:40:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T18:40:45","slug":"peter-stanfield-on-hollywood-westerns-in-the-sunday-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/10\/31\/peter-stanfield-on-hollywood-westerns-in-the-sunday-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Stanfield on Hollywood Westerns in The Sunday Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/stanfield.html\">Peter Stanfield<\/a>, Professor of Film and Media in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a>, featured in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/\">The Sunday Post<\/a><\/em> at the beginning of the week, interviewed for an article entitled \u2018Ride Off Into the Boxset: From Westworld to Red Dead Redemption, Why We All Just Love Cowboy Westerns\u2019, in the edition dated 29 October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The article ties in with the release of the video game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/reddeadredemption2\">Red Dead Redemption 2<\/a>, which immerses players in the Wild West to engage in gun slinging and cattle rustling.<\/p>\n<p>The article draws upon Peter\u2019s research expertise in the Hollywood Westerns. Peter explains that the themes of the classic Western are timeless: \u2018It is mouldable to whatever age in which it\u2019s made. When it was a really popular genre, it spoke to the popular concerns of the day. The Gene Autry films were about the plight of the working man and the Great Depression.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/ride-off-into-the-boxset-from-westworld-to-red-dead-redemption-why-we-all-just-love-cowboy-westerns\/\">www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/ride-off-into-the-boxset-from-westworld-to-red-dead-redemption-why-we-all-just-love-cowboy-westerns\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Stanfield, Professor of Film and Media in the School of Arts, featured in The Sunday Post at the beginning of the week, interviewed for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/10\/31\/peter-stanfield-on-hollywood-westerns-in-the-sunday-post\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,168423,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}