1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910429960003321

Autore

Carrol, Alison

Titolo

The return of Alsace to France, 1918-1939 / Alison Carrol

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University press, 2018

ISBN

9780198803911

Descrizione fisica

VII, 230 p., [1] c. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

944.0814

944.390815

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

944.081 CAR 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464226003321

Autore

Aquila Richard <1946->

Titolo

The sagebrush trail : western movies and twentieth-century America / / Richard Aquila

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8165-3154-4

0-8165-3178-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Modern American West

Disciplina

791.43/65878

Soggetti

Western films - United States - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Prologue. The sagebrush trail -- Part I. The rise of western movies, 1900-1914. The great train robbery : or how early western movies stole America's heart ; Blazing the trail : new directors and the rise of feature westerns ; The big trail : tracking feature westerns through depression and war ; Tumbling tumbleweeds : guns, guitars, and b-western cowboys -- Part II. Transitional westerns on new frontiers, 1945-1963. The searchers : cowboys and containment on the cold war frontier ; Shane : western heroes and the culture of the cold war -- Part III. "New western" horizons, 1964-1999. A fistful of dollars : spaghetti westerns and changing times ; The wild bunch : American westerns on a revisionist trail ; True grit : traditional westerns ride again! ; Silverado : the mythic west at century's end -- Epilogue. Django unchained.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Sagebrush Trail" is a panoramic survey of western movies in the twentieth century, from Edwin Porter's "The Great Train Robbery" (1903) to Clint Eastwood's "The Unforgiven" (1992) and beyond"--Provided by publisher.