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"More westerns - the good, the bad, or the ugly - have been made than nearly any other type of movie. They include silent films, shorts, serials, film series, feature films, made-for-television movies, and other formats. As a result, few images are as familiar to audiences worldwide as those of gunfighters, bandanna-clad outlaws, or cowboys riding into a sunset. From rollicking musical adventures to historical epics to penetrating psychological explorations,...
2) High Noon
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This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
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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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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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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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"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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"Peter A. French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world, he finds alternatives to Judeo-Christian traditions that dominate our ethical theories, alternatives that also attack the views of the most prominent ethicists of the past three centuries."
14) Killer Joe
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""One of our most valuable playwrights."--Time Out New York" A hideously funny tabloid noir. Letts' balance of irony and empathy continues to impress."-LA Weekly A definitively dysfunctional family gives in to its basest instincts and is forced to face hidden truths in this twisted modern-day fairy tale by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of August: Osage County. Performed in fifteen countries and twelve languages since its 1998 stage debut, Killer...
16) The Blinds
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Helping maintain an uneasy peace in The Blinds, a rural Texas community of criminal misfits who were given a chance at a new life after having their memories altered, sheriff Calvin Cooper struggles with personal secrets in the wake of a suicide and murder.
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From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film. Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires Deepens an audience's understanding of the genre's most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach,...
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"This book analyzes the archetypes, themes, and figures within the principal mythology of the Western frontier. Western themes are interpreted as expressions of cultural needs that perform specific psychological functions for the audience. Chapters are devoted to the frontier hero character, the roles of women and Native Americans, and the work of directors Anthony Mann and John Ford"--Provided by publisher.
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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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