Television westerns : six decades of sagebrush sheriffs, scalawags, and sidewinders / / Alvin H. Marill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961816503321
• Autore: Marill Alvin H
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2011
• ISBN: 979-82-16-28974-6; 1-283-09923-3; 9786613099235; 0-8108-8133-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.45/65878
• Soggetti: Western television programs - United States
• 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: Foreword / by Jon Burlingame -- Introduction -- Defending range justice on the tube -- Coming of age on the tv frontier -- The western Disney style and the pivotal years -- From Wagon train and Bonanza to The Virginian and The big valley -- The made-for western saddles up -- The great western miniseries -- Cartoon westerns -- Western documentaries -- Western-themed series episodes -- Heading, alas, thataway!.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume looks at the Western as it was represented from the beginning of television, encompassing all manifestations of the Western, including such series as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and The Wild, Wild West, as well as movies-of the-week, mini-series, failed pilots, animated programs, documentaries, and even Western-themed episodes of non-Western series that provided their own spin