Westerns: films through history

by Walker, Janet

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Title Statements

Full title :Westerns : films through history / edited by Janet Walker.

Summary

"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"--Publisher description

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781135204693, 1135204691, 9780203700600, 0203700600, 9781135204709, 1135204705, 9781135204655, 1135204659, 0415924243, 9780415924245
oclc:ocn864551232
LC Classification:PN1995.9.W4
Dewey Decimal:791.43/6278

Introduction : Westerns through history / Janet Walker -- Generic subversion as counterhistory : Mario van Peeble's Posse / Alexandra Keller -- A tale N/nobody can tell : the return of a repressed western history in Jim Jarmusch's Dead man / Melinda Szakoly -- The burden of history and John Sayles's Lone star / Tomás F. Sandoval, Jr. -- Cowboy wonderland, history and myth : "It ain't all that different than real life" / William G. Simon and Louise Spence -- Life-like, vivid, and thrilling pictures : Buffalo Bill's Wild West and early cinema / Joy S. Kasson -- Buffalo Bill (himself) : history and memory in the western biopic / Corey K. Creekmur -- How the West was sung / Kathryn Kalinak -- Drums along the L.A. River : scoring the Indian / Claudia Gorbman -- Beyond the western frontier : reappropriations of the "good badman" in France, the French colonies, and contemporary Algeria / Peter J. Bloom -- Captive images in the traumatic western : The searchers, Pursued, Once upon a time in the West, and Lone star / Janet Walker.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Electronic books PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference United States USA Western Western films Western films -- History and criticism.… Westerns -- Histoire et critique. -- Ét… Wild-westfilms