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The Western, from silents to the seventies

Title
The Western, from silents to the seventies [by] George N. Fenin and William K. Everson.
Author
Fenin, George N.
Publication
[New York], [Grossman], [1973]

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Additional Authors
Everson, William K.
Description
xviii, 396 pages illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
This revised and expanded edition contains new chapters on Italian and Japanese Westerns and on the American Westerns of the last decade. This illustrated history of the Western is the product of serious research into the truth of the West and its cinematic presentation. Here are all the stars and the heroes, outlaws, and heroines they portrayed; the themes of the Westerns; the directors; the fist- and gunfights; the Western landscapes; the Indian raids; the covered wagon treks; the rustlers; the sheriffs who pursued them.
Subject
  • Western films > History and criticism
  • Western films
  • Westerns > Histoire et critique
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Western films.
Note
  • Edition for 1962 published under title: The Western, from silents to cinerama.
ISBN
  • 0670757268
  • 9780670757268
LCCN
72093285
OCLC
  • ocm00752070
  • 752070
  • SCSB-227539
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library