A Pictorial History of Westerns
Author | : Michael Parkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Western films |
ISBN | : 9780600130673 |
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Author | : Michael Parkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Western films |
ISBN | : 9780600130673 |
Author | : William K. Everson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Ronald Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781434359254 |
Author | : William Keith Everson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Ronald Jackson |
Publisher | : Virgin Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Western television programs |
ISBN | : 9780863698460 |
In this addition to the Virgin Film Library, American recording star and TV personality Ronald Jackson has explored the vast range of TV westerns and selected his favourite shows. Nostalgia buffs will relive such landmark series as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The High Chaparral, The Deputy and Have Gun, Will Travel.
Author | : Donald R. Key |
Publisher | : Empire Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN | : 9780944019122 |
Here is the best Western movie cowboy pictorial ever producted - featuring 300 cowboy stars, sidekicks, heroines, villains and assorted players.
Author | : Janet Walker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135204691 |
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 by Buffalo Bill Cody, the revisionist aims of recent westerns like Posse, Lone Star, and Dead Man , and how the genre addresses key issues of biography, authenticity, race, and representation. Included is an introduction by Janet Walker.
Author | : Arthur F. McClure |
Publisher | : South Brunswick : A. S. Barnes |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Heroes, Heavies and Sagebrush is the result of much time spent in tracing the lives of some of these players, not only from the standpoint of historical curiosity, but in order to provide an affectionate, nostalgic glimpse of a significant aspect of the western movie fare. The lives of the various players represent a study in contrasts. Some embody the rags-to-riches-to-lost-fame theme so often observed in the lives of Hollywood residents. Some were semi-literate, while others earned academic degrees. Some retained their wealth and popularity, while still others retained neither. A representative group of actors who played heroes, heavies, sidekicks, Indians and assorted character types are included in the investigation.
Author | : Richard Aquila |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816531781 |
The Sagebrush Trail is a history of Western movies but also a history of twentieth-century America. Richard Aquila’s fast-paced narrative covers both the silent and sound eras, and includes classic westerns such as Stagecoach, A Fistful of Dollars, and Unforgiven, as well as B-Westerns that starred film cowboys like Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Hopalong Cassidy. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 traces the birth and growth of Westerns from 1900 through the end of World War II. Part 2 focuses on a transitional period in Western movie history during the two decades following World War II. Finally, part 3 shows how Western movies reflected the rapid political, social, and cultural changes that transformed America in the 1960s and the last decades of the twentieth century. The Sagebrush Trail explains how Westerns evolved throughout the twentieth century in response to changing times, and it provides new evidence and fresh interpretations about both Westerns and American history. These films offer perspectives on the past that historians might otherwise miss. They reveal how Americans reacted to political and social movements, war, and cultural change. The result is the definitive story of Western movies, which contributes to our understanding of not just movie history but also the mythic West and American history. Because of its subject matter and unique approach that blends movies and history, The Sagebrush Trail should appeal to anyone interested in Western movies, pop culture, the American West, and recent American history and culture. The mythic West beckons but eludes. Yet glimpses of its utopian potential can always be found, even if just for a few hours in the realm of Western movies. There on the silver screen, the mythic West continues to ride tall in the saddle along a “sagebrush trail” that reveals valuable clues about American life and thought.
Author | : Barrie Hanfling |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476608369 |
Over the past century, the western has fluctuated in popularity. By 2010 it has come to stand, to the dismay of many, at one of its lowest points. Beginning with 1929 and the advent of talkies (In Old Arizona), the author discusses the cultural and industry trends, the directors, producers, studios and especially the stars, and looks at the ways in which their personalities (and financial ups and downs) affected the way westerns were shot. The improvements in technology through the years, the trick horses, the fistfight choreography, the evolution of plotlines--these are fascinating indicators of the way Americans themselves were changing.