The BFI Companion to the Western
Author | : British Film Institute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Western films |
ISBN | : 9780851702834 |
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Author | : British Film Institute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Western films |
ISBN | : 9780851702834 |
Author | : Edward Buscombe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN | : 9780233986180 |
Author | : British Film Institute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780233983325 |
Author | : Edward Buscombe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 183871412X |
Addresses the perennial appeal of the Western, exploring its 19th century popular culture, and its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. This work considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles, from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s.
Author | : Phil Hardy |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780520215382 |
"A complete and detailed guide to crime on film: prison dramas, film noir, heist movies, juvenile delinquents, serial killers, bank robbers, and many other subgenres and motifs. The historical and social background to movie crime is covered by articles on the FBI, the Mafia, the Japanese yakuza, prohibition, boxing, union rackets, drugs, poisoning, prostitution, and many other topics."--Cover.
Author | : David Lusted |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317874919 |
The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has been understood in film criticism. Until the 1980s, more Westerns were made than any other type of film. For fifty of those years, the genre was central to Hollywood's popularity and profitability. The Western explores the reasons for its success and its latter-day decline among film-makers and audiences alike. Part I charts the history of the Western film and its role in film studies. Part II traces the origins of the Western in nineteenth-century America, and in its literary, theatrical and visual imagining. This sets the scene to explore the many evolving forms in successive chapters on early silent Westerns, the series Western, the epic, the romance, the dystopian, the elegiac and, finally, the revisionist Western. The Western concludes with an extensive bibliography, filmography and select further reading. Over 200 Westerns are discussed, among them close accounts of classics such as Duel in the Sun, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, formative titles like John Ford's epic The Iron Horse, and early cowboy star William S. Hart's The Silent One together with less familiar titles that deserve wider recognition, including Comanche Station, Pursued and Ulzana's Raid.
Author | : Edward Buscombe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838718346 |
John Ford's Stagecoach, starring John Wayne in the part that made him a star, remains the most famous Western ever made. Shedding new light on an old favourite, this is an enjoyable account of how the film got made, combined with a careful scene-by-scene analysis, a wealth of illustrations and the most complete credits yet assembled.
Author | : Richard Slotkin |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806130316 |
Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing
Author | : Gaylyn Studlar |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001-04-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780253214140 |
The Western is arguably the most popular and longlived form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was John Ford. His Westerns, including The Searchers, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, have had an enormous influence on contemporary U.S. filmmakers, and on everything from Star Wars to Taxi Driver.In nine majors essays from some of the most prominent scholars of Hollywood film, John Ford Made Westerns: Filming The Legend in The Sound Era situates the sound era westerns of John Ford within contemporary critical contexts and regards them from fresh perspectives. These range from examining Ford's relation to other art forms (most notably literature, painting and music) to exploring the development of the director's public reputation as a director of Westerns. Articles also address the intricacies of Ford's shifting approach to storytelling and the subtle techniques whereby Ford's films guide spectator interpretation and emotional engagement.While giving attention to film style and structure, the volume also explores the ways in which these much loved films engage with notions of masculinity and gender roles, capitalism and community, as well as racial and sexual identity. Authors also examine how Ford's sound-era Westerns create a complex relationship to the genre's traditional project of "defining an American nation" and how they uphold up but also question popular culture depictions of history and nationhood, to offer a commentary that engages with both the past, the present and the future.In addition to new scholarship, the volume also offers a dossier section of out of the way magazine articles that illuminate the issues raised by essays, including the director's tribute to John Wayne as well as a moving posthumous appraisal of the director published by the Director's Guild of America.
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.