The A to Z of westerns in cinema / / Paul Varner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825549603321
• Autore: Varner Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-52160-8; 9786612521607; 0-8108-7051-7
• Edizione: [101th ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Collana: A to Z guide series ; ; no. 101
• Disciplina: 791.43627803; 791.4365878
• Soggetti: Western films; Motion pictures
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Bibliography; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: The story of the western is told in The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema through a chronology, a bibliography, and an introductory essay. However, it is the hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on cinematographers; composers; producers; films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dances With Wolves, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, The Searchers, Tombstone, and Unforgiven; such actors as Gene Autry, Kirk Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and John Wayne; and directors like John Ford and Sergio Leone that will have you reaching for t