Westerns [[electronic resource] ] : paperback novels and movies from Hollywood / / edited by Paul Varner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456434103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-04324-2; 9786612043246; 1-4438-0235-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): VarnerPaul
• Disciplina: 791.4375
• Soggetti: Western films - United States - History and criticism; Western stories - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Movies from Hollywood -- pt. 2. Paperback westerns and movies from Hollywood.
• Sommario/riassunto: Whatever we might think of them, popular Westerns, both movies and cheap paperbacks on the newsstand racks, have had a powerful impact on both U.S. culture and Western European culture in general. Collected here are new studies from a variety of critical approaches of popular Westerns by scholars from the U.S., the U.K., and Europe, new studies of classic William S. Hart, John Ford, Clint Eastwood, and Sam Peckinpah film Westerns as well as new studies of seldom studied writers such as James ...