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Author : Ian Cameron
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Book of Westerns written by Ian Cameron and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the Western movie.
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 178033916X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Westerns written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West. It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.
Author : Herb Fagen
Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 : 9780816044566
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (445 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Westerns written by Herb Fagen and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 2003 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical listing of western films, discussing information on production, cast, and crew, and offering a summary of the plot, and a critical analysis.
Author : Lee Clark Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226532356
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Westerns written by Lee Clark Mitchell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-05-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from classic films such as STAGECOACH to spaghetti Westerns like A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, culture scholar Lee Clark Mitchell shows how Westerns as a genre helped assuage a series of crises in American culture by responding to fears and obsessions of its audience--particularly what it means to be a "man". 30 photos. 5 line drawings.
Author : Janet Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135204691
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Westerns written by Janet Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edward Buscombe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183871412X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book 100 Westerns written by Edward Buscombe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Owen Wister
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026865715
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book THE VIRGINIAN - A Horseman of the Plains (Western Classic) written by Owen Wister and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THE VIRGINIAN - A Horseman of the Plains (Western Classic)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This classic describes the life of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others. Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the novel The Virginian.
Author : Philip French
Publisher : Carcanet Film
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Westerns written by Philip French and published by Carcanet Film. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saddle up and enjoy as the Observer's celebrated film critic Philip French takes readers on a tour of the Western.
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Publisher : Wordsworth Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781840226492
Total Pages : 1407 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Collector's Book of Westerns written by and published by Wordsworth Classics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection from some of the greatest classic writers of the compelling body of literature that immortalized ranchers and cowpunchers, trappers and prospectors, gamblers and lawmen.
Author : Christopher Conway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621899X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Comic Book Western written by Christopher Conway and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.
Author : John White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136855602
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Westerns written by John White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the evolution of the Western through history and looks at theoretical and critical approaches to Westerns such as genre analysis, semiotics, representation, ideology, discourse analysis, narrative, realism, auteur and star theory, psychoanalytical theory, postmodernism and audience response. The book includes case studies of eight key westerns: Stagecoach, My darling Clementine, Shane, The Good, the bad and the ugly, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Unforgiven, Brokeback mountain, The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. It also includes a chronology of significant events for the Western genre.
Author : Christine Bold
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Selling the Wild West written by Christine Bold and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Clark Mitchell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496210697
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Late Westerns written by Lee Clark Mitchell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century the cinematic Western has been America's most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle--with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre--maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach "post" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily, defied generic patterns, the Western continues to enthrall audiences. It does so by engaging narrative expectations stamped on our collective consciousness so firmly as to integrate materials that might not seem obviously "Western" at all. Through plot cues, narrative reminders, and even cinematic frameworks, recent films shape interpretive understanding by triggering a long-standing familiarity audiences have with the genre. Mitchell's critical analysis reveals how these films engage a thematic and cinematic border-crossing in which their formal innovations and odd plots succeed deconstructively, encouraging by allusion, implication, and citation the evocation of generic meaning from ingredients that otherwise might be interpreted quite differently. Applying genre theory with close cinematic readings, Mitchell posits that the Western has essentially been "post" all along.
Author : Marilynn Hughes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387659464
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (876 download)
Download or read book The Western Book of the Dead: Or the Record of the Books of God written by Marilynn Hughes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Rose
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781508836926
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Cowboys of the Old West - written by Elizabeth Rose and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of Elizabeth Rose's short Westerns in one book! The Outlaw - A man leaves town as an outlaw and returns as their sheriff. The Bounty Hunter - A bounty hunter's horse is stolen by one of the East Gang - a woman disguised as a boy. The Gambler - A gambler wins a mail-order bride in a poker game, not knowing it is a flame from his past. The Drifter - A man who's mistaken for a bandit, stumbles into a woman's stagecoach relay station, wounded.
Author : Bill Pronzini
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780816151158
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Bill Pronzini written by Bill Pronzini and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Swallow Press book. In this volume the reader can sample the author's sharp character portraits, the evocations of a vanished way of life, the crime and detective stories in Western settings, and comic or ironic vignettes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : John Mort
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1591581346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Read the High Country written by John Mort and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists approximately two thousand titles categorized by such subgenres and themes as mountain men, exploration, range and ranch life, sagas, and Western mysteries.
