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



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Autore: Aquila Richard <1946-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The sagebrush trail : western movies and twentieth-century America / / Richard Aquila Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8165-3154-4
0-8165-3178-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464226003321
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Serie: Modern American West.