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The Western, from silents to cinerama
- Title
- The Western, from silents to cinerama / George N. Fenin and William K. Everson.
- Author
- Fenin, George N.
- Publication
- New York : Orion Press, ©1962.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | 30109.342 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Everson, William K.
- Description
- 362 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- This book represents not only a useful study of the industrial and aesthetic growth of a popular movie genre, but a critical analysis of it.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Western films.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Western films – History and criticism.
- Westerns.
- Note
- Edition for 1973 published under title: The Western, from silents to the seventies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Western History and the Hollywood Version -- Contents and Moral Influence of the Western -- The Primitives: Edwin S. Porter and Broncho Billy Anderson -- David W. Griffith and Thomas H. Ince: 1909-1913 -- William Surrey Hart and Realism -- Tom Mix and Showmanship -- Douglas Fairbanks and John Ford: 1913-1920 -- James Cruze's The Covered Wagon and John Ford's The Iron Horse -- The Twenties -- The Western Costume -- The Thirties -- The Western Serial: Its Birth and Demise -- The Forties -- New Trends in the Postwar Western -- The Stuntman and the Second Unit Director -- Exeunt the "B"s, Enter Television -- The Western's International Audience and the International Western -- The Contemporary Western.
- LCCN
- 62015016
- OCLC
- ocm00330385
- 330385
- SCSB-2128680
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library