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UNINA9910464226003321 |
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Autore |
Aquila Richard <1946-> |
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The sagebrush trail : western movies and twentieth-century America / / Richard Aquila |
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Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-8165-3154-4 |
0-8165-3178-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Western films - United States - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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. |
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