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This revised and expanded edition contains new chapters on Italian and Japanese Westerns and on the American Westerns of the last decade. This illustrated history of the Western is the product of serious research into the truth of the West and its cinematic presentation. Here are all the stars and the heroes, outlaws, and heroines they portrayed; the themes of the Westerns; the directors; the fist- and gunfights; the Western landscapes; the Indian...
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Analyzing Western films from different vantage points and by using different critical methods, Tuska compares the recorded fantasies about the American West with the actual historical events. He deals with the social and psychological aspects of the systematic distortion and misrepresentation of the American past, and the influence of this practice on the national character. Part I investigates the structure of Westerns--the formula Western, the historical...
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The Book of Westerns concentrates on the period between 1939 and the present day, looking at the Western from a wide variety of perspectives and providing in-depth critical analysis of many notable movies up to Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994).
The coverage includes such celebrated works as George Stevens's Shane with Alan Ladd as the archetypal solitary Western hero, Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar where the combatants in the final gunfight are...
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This study of Peckinpah's westerns traces the film artist's career from his first television projects such as Gunsmoke and The Rifleman to such late sabotaged works as Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and The Getaway. The author speaks of Peckinpah's kinesthetic style and his complex, troubled psyche and compares him to John Ford. He examines the western myth, masculinity in films, literature and Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch and The Ballad of...
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Showdown is a study of America's oldest, most representative film genre, the Western movie from the perspective of social allegory. It assesses scores of major and minor films to show how Westerns function as vehicles for contemporary social and political critiques of American life.
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"The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre. In Westerns, leading scholars unpack the ways in which the form has embellished, mythologized, and erased past events. Contributors explore the mythic "Wild West" envisioned...
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"The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel is a revised and considerably expanded edition of The Six-Gun Mystique, a pioneering study of the Western as a popular genre that has been widely influential since its original publication in 1970. In this expanded version, Cawelti revises his analysis of the structural characteristics of the Western novel and film, synthesizing much of the rich discussion of the Western genre that has appeared since The Six-Gun Mystique's...
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This is an anthology of critical biographies of Western movie actors written by a gathering of Westerners. The contributors cover actors such as W.S. Hart, Ken Maynard, Randolph Scott, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and Audie Murphy; lesser-known Western actors; and women in the West and on television series. ISBN 0-253-20415-1 (pbk.): $12.95.
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"They went that-a-way!" The gesturing arm pointed into the fading sun, setting the scene for an hour of action and adventure many memorable Saturday afternoons long ago. As the travelogue faded from the darkened screen, a matinee audience filled with kids hoarse from shrieking and whistling at Art Acord's adventures in his latest serial greeted a white-clad silent stranger with a thundering roar as he rode into a dusty western town to face the gunslingers...
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In Playing Cowboys, Robert Murray Davis examines the Western hero--a principal image of American manhood since publication of The Virginian--as portrayed by a variety of post-World War II novelists and filmmakers. Innovative artists have used the Western to discuss issues of ethics and aesthetics, but its greatest impact may have been on popular cultural values. Davis shows that the Western is not primarily about escape or violence, but, at its best,...
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