Author : Peter Stanfield
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s by : Peter Stanfield
Download or read book Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s written by Peter Stanfield and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanfield (media arts, Southampton Institute, UK) studies the western movie as a cultural artifact embedded in the lived experience of American life of the 1930s; he shifts away from the overarching paradigm of the frontier myth to explore instead practical problems of production and consumption. He examines the changing fortunes in the making of '30s westerns--both "B" serials and classics--and explains why the genre intermittently found and lost favor with the major studios. With a sprinkling of bandw stills. Distributed in the US by David Brown Book Co. c. Book News Inc.