| Description |
vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Edward Buscombe and Roberta E. Pearson -- 1. Vanishing Americans: Racial and Ethnic Issues in the Interpretation and Context of Post-war 'Pro-Indian' Westerns / Steve Neale -- 2. Photographing the Indian / Edward Buscombe -- 3. The Professional Western: South of the Border / Noel Carroll -- 4. Wider Horizons: Douglas Fairbanks and Nostalgic Primitivism / Gaylyn Studlar -- 5. 'Our Country'/Whose Country? The 'Americanisation' Project of Early Westerns / Richard Abel -- 6. Dixie Cowboys and Blue Yodels: The Strange History of the Singing Cowboy / Peter Stanfield -- 7. 'Sixty Million Viewers Can't Be Wrong': The Rise and Fall of the Television Western / William Boddy -- 8. Finding a New Heimat in the Wild West: Karl May and the German Western of the 1960s / Tassilo Schneider -- 9. John Ford and Monument Valley / Jean-Louis Leutrat and Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues -- 10. Magazine Advertising and the Western / Colin McArthur |
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11. The Fantasy of Authenticity in Western Costume / Jane Marie Gaines and Charlotte Cornelia Herzog -- 12. The New Western American Historiography and the Emergence of the New American Westerns / Rick Worland and Edward Countryman -- 13. The Twelve Custers, or, Video History / Roberta E. Pearson |
| Notes |
'First published in 1998 by the British Film Institute ...' -- T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Western films -- History and criticism.
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Western films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Western television programs -- History and criticism.
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Western television programs -- United States -- History and criticism.
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| SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- In mass media.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146156
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| Author |
Buscombe, Edward.
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Pearson, Roberta E.
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British Film Institute.
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| LC no. |
98210526 |
| ISBN |
0851706606 |
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0851706614 (paperback) |
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