The sagebrush trail : western movies and twentieth-century America / / Richard Aquila
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| Autore: |
Aquila Richard <1946->
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| Titolo: |
The sagebrush trail : western movies and twentieth-century America / / Richard Aquila
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| Pubblicazione: | Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/65878 |
| Soggetto topico: | Western films - United States - History and criticism |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The sagebrush trail |
| ISBN: | 0-8165-3154-4 |
| 0-8165-3178-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811791803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Modern American West.