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Western Film Series Of The Sound Era

By Michael R Pitts

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9780786435296 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 20, 2009, cover price $45.00

SAVAGES AND SAINTS: The Changing Image of American Indiands in Westerns

Product Description: can be compared to a light shining through a prism. We may have seen bits and pieces of the genuine culture portrayed, but rarely did we see a satisfying and informative whole picture. In films like Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman, the Indian was a murderous savage with few, if any, redeeming qualities...read more

By Bob Herzberg

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9780786434466 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 11, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: can be compared to a light shining through a prism.

Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoer's Guide to Great Westerns

By Howard Hughes

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9781845114985 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 8, 2008, cover price $110.00

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9781845115715 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, January 8, 2008, cover price $21.00

Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film

Product Description: Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film explores how Hollywood has employed the frontier myth to sanction imperial behavior. This cultural project integrates the myth, America’s secular creation story, with Manifest Destiny, the sugar-coated impetus to conquer without compunction...read more

By Mark Cronlund Anderson

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9780820495453 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film explores how Hollywood has employed the frontier myth to sanction imperial behavior.

Hollywood And the O.K. Corral: Portrayals of the Gunfight And Wyatt Earp

'This volume examines eight movies of the legendary gunfight, produced from 1939 to 1994, and each use Wyatt Earp and other real-life characters as their sources. The work focuses on the filmmakers' treatment of the history and the skill with which each balances fact with the necessity of entertainment. Period photographs are also included'--Provided by publisher.

By Michael F. Blake

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9780786426324 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 28, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 'This volume examines eight movies of the legendary gunfight, produced from 1939 to 1994, and each use Wyatt Earp and other real-life characters as their sources.

Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre

By Deborah a Carmichael (editor)

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9780874808667 | Univ of Utah Pr, June 30, 2006, cover price $21.95

Police on Screen: Hollywood Cops, Detectives, Marshals and Rangers

'This comprehensive examination provides a critical-historical analysis of law enforcement in American cinema. From High Noon to The Empire Strikes Back, it examines the police in their many incarnations with emphasis on the ways in which lawmen are portrayed and how this portrayal changes over time'--Provided by publisher.

By M. Ray Lott

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9780786425778 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 30, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 'This comprehensive examination provides a critical-historical analysis of law enforcement in American cinema.

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film. Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires Deepens an audienceâs understanding of the genreâs most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.

By Patrick McGee

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9781405139649 | Blackwell Pub, May 5, 2006, cover price $127.95 | About this edition: From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film.

9780080367323, titled "National Security Strategy of the United States: 1990-1991" | Pergamon Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | also contains National Security Strategy of the United States: 1990-1991 | About this edition: Represents the Bush administration's position on the national interest of the United States, the leading issues in international affairs and relations, and political, economic, and defense aspects of policy

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9781405139656 | Blackwell Pub, May 5, 2006, cover price $46.95

Best of the Badmen

Product Description: This book contains detailed bios, photos, and filmographies on 315 men who played outlaws, bandits, and polecats on the movie and TV western screen from 1930 to the 1960s. Written and exclusively researched by three noted western movie historians -- Boyd Magers, author of "Western Clippings" Magazine, "So You Wanna See Cowboy Stuff," "The Films of Audie Murphy," "Westerns Women," and others; Bobby Copeland, author of "B-Western Boot Hill," "Trail Talk," "Johnny Mack Brown: Up Close and Personal," "Roy Barcroft: King of the Badmen," and others; and Bob Nareau, author of five books on Bob Steele, "Bits and Spurs," and "Kid Kowboys...read more

By Bobby Copeland (compiler), Boyd Magers, Bob Nareau (compiler), Michael Pate (foreword by), Peters (foreword by) and Morgan Woodward (foreword by)

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9780944019436 | Empire Pub, November 30, 2005, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: This book contains detailed bios, photos, and filmographies on 315 men who played outlaws, bandits, and polecats on the movie and TV western screen from 1930 to the 1960s.

Hollywood Hoofbeats: Trails Blazed Across The Silver Screen

Product Description: Petrine Day Mitchum tells stories in page-turning detail, covering topics such as behind-the-scenes portraits of both famous movie horses and those virtually unknown; personal accounts from their trainers, owners, and co-stars; simple and complex horse stunts, from a fall in mid-gallop to a race across a bridge during a live explosion; and historic black-and-white photographs and richly coloured contemporary stills...read more

By Petrine Day Mitchum and Audrey Pavia

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9781931993388 | Lumina Media, September 1, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Petrine Day Mitchum tells stories in page-turning detail, covering topics such as behind-the-scenes portraits of both famous movie horses and those virtually unknown; personal accounts from their trainers, owners, and co-stars; simple and complex horse stunts, from a fall in mid-gallop to a race across a bridge during a live explosion; and historic black-and-white photographs and richly coloured contemporary stills.

Shooting Scripts: From Pulp Western To Film

'The adaptations of seven of the pulps' best writers--Ernest Haycox, Luke Short, Frank Gruber, Norman A. Fox, Louis L'Amour, Marvin H. Albert, and Clair Huffaker--are analyzed here. A critical examination of how the books were interpreted by filmmakers is included, along with commentary on the actors and directors who put the pulps on screen'--Provided by publisher.

By Bob Herzberg

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9780786421732 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 30, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 'The adaptations of seven of the pulps' best writers--Ernest Haycox, Luke Short, Frank Gruber, Norman A.

Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns

By Yardena Rand

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9781932991444 | Maverick Spirit Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $24.95

Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy

Product Description: In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Yet these three actors played a crucial role in the changing environment of the post-World War II Western, and, in the process, made many excellent middle-budget films that are still a pleasure to watch...read more

By Robert Nott

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9780786407620 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 1, 2000, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Scott, McCrea, and Murphy played a crucial role in the changing environment of post-WWII Westerns, and made many excellent middle- budget films.

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9780786422616, titled "Last Of The Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns Of Randolph Scott, Joel Mccrea, And Audie Murphy." | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 20, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne.

Westerns in a Changing America, 1955-2000

By R. Philip Loy

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9780786418718 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 1, 2004, cover price $39.95

Cowboys As Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History

Product Description: Emerging from World War Two with superpower status, the United States entered a period of economic prosperity, but the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War cast a shadow over American life. Not coincidentally the same period marked the heyday of the western film...read more

By Stanley Corkin

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9781592132539 | Temple Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $79.50 | About this edition: Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life.

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9781592132546 | Temple Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Emerging from World War Two with superpower status, the United States entered a period of economic prosperity, but the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War cast a shadow over American life.

Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood

Traces the history of western films from their silent-picture origins in the 1890s to the talking pictures of the 1920s, citing the impact of western film on the overall development of the movie industry while exploring the productions of such companies as Selig Polyscope, New York Motion Picture, and Essanay. (Performing Arts)

By Andrew Brodie Smith

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9780870817465 | Univ Pr of Colorado, January 1, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of western films from their silent-picture origins in the 1890s to the talking pictures of the 1920s, citing the impact of western film on the overall development of the movie industry while exploring the productions of such companies as Selig Polyscope, New York Motion Picture, and Essanay.

Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company

By David Kiehn

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9780972922654 | Farwell Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $32.50

The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half-Century

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By Scott Simmon

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9780521554732 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2003, cover price $120.00

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9780521555814 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $49.99

Kid Kowboys: Juveniles in Western Films

Product Description: At last . . . a book saluting those darling "kid kowboy" performers who put a spark into the Saturday matinee Western movies. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about those delightful and telented youngsters who appeared in the early Western movies...read more

By Bob Nareau

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9780944019412 | Empire Pub, August 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: At last .

Code of Honor: The Making of Three Great American Westerns-High Noon, Shane, and the Searchers

Product Description: Code of Honor: The Making of High Noon, Shane and The Searchers is the first book to provide a detailed history of the struggles and triumphs in the production of these three classic Amerian Western films. With access to the collections of directors Fred Zinnemann George Stevens and John Ford, author Michael F...read more

By Michael F. Blake

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9780878333004 | 1 edition (Taylor Pub, May 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Code of Honor: The Making of High Noon, Shane and The Searchers is the first book to provide a detailed history of the struggles and triumphs in the production of these three classic Amerian Western films.

Code of Honor: The Making of Three Great American Westerns-- High Noon, Shane, and the Searchers

By Michael F. Blake

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9781589790100 | Roberts Rinehart Madison, April 1, 2003, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Code of Honor: The Making of High Noon, Shane and The Searchers is the first book to provide a detailed history of the struggles and triumphs in the production of these three classic Amerian Western films.

White Horse, Black Hat: A Quarter Century on Hollywood's Poverty Row

Product Description: From the silent era into the early days of television, hundreds of small production companies turned out low-budget films that were played as second features in this country and abroad. As might be expected, a high percentage of these films were Westerns...read more

By C. Jack Lewis

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9780810843585 | Scarecrow Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: From the silent era into the early days of television, hundreds of small production companies turned out low-budget films that were played as second features in this country and abroad.

Cowboy: How Hollywood Invented the Wild West : Featuring the Real West, Campfire Melodies, Matinee Idols, Four Legged Friends, Cowgirls & Lone Guns

A richly illustrated history of the American West combines period photographs and historical accounts in a study that assesses the discrepancies between Hollywood's portrayal of the West and the real-life world of frontier pioneers. (view table of contents)

By Holly George-Warren

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9780762103751 | Readers Digest, September 1, 2002, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: An illustrated history of the American West combines period photographs and historical accounts in a study that assesses the discrepancies between Hollywood's portrayal of the West and the real-life world of frontier pioneers.

Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy

Product Description: In this innovative take on a neglected chapter of film history, Peter Stanfield challenges the commonly held view of the singing cowboy as an ephemeral figure of fun and argues instead that he was one of the most important cultural figures to emerge out of the Great Depression...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peter Stanfield

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9780252027338 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: In this innovative take on a neglected chapter of film history, Peter Stanfield challenges the commonly held view of the singing cowboy as an ephemeral figure of fun and argues instead that he was one of the most important cultural figures to emerge out of the Great Depression.

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9780252070495 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In this innovative take on a neglected chapter of film history, Peter Stanfield challenges the commonly held view of the singing cowboy as an ephemeral figure of fun and argues instead that he was one of the most important cultural figures to emerge out of the Great Depression.

Silent Hoofbeats: A Salute to the Horses and Riders of the Bygone B-Western Era

Product Description: A salute to the horses and riders of the bygone B-Western era... They are all here - Trigger, Champion, Black Jack, Topper, and all the rest. Not only is this a book about the horses, but it also contains extensive commentary by the cowboy heroes...read more

By Bobby J. Copeland

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9780944019375 | Empire Pub, December 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A salute to the horses and riders of the bygone B-Western era.

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