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High Noon - Classic Tales of the Wild West - Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Stagecoach, Destry Rides Again, Western Union, the Virginian

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447480440

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High Noon - Classic Tales of the Wild West - Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Stagecoach, Destry Rides Again, Western Union, the Virginian by Various Authors Pdf

The Wild West looms large in the artistic imagination, and has left an indelible mark on the history of cinema. However, unbeknownst to many, lots of the most famous Western films started out as stories. In this anthology, then, we have collected those tales which later found their way onto the silver screen. Including 'Hopalong Cassidy', 'The Cisco Kid', 'The Virginian' and many more.

The Western, From Silents to Cinerama

Author : George N Fenin
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014675502

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The Western, From Silents to Cinerama by George N Fenin Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Shooting Stars of the Small Screen

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292783317

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Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett. Though the cultural revolution of the later 1960s contributed to the demise of traditional Western programs, the Western never actually disappeared from TV. Instead, it took on new forms, such as the highly popular Lonesome Dove and Deadwood, while exploring the lives of characters who never before had a starring role, including anti-heroes, mountain men, farmers, Native and African Americans, Latinos, and women. Shooting Stars of the Small Screen is a comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or played a recurring character role in a TV Western series or a made-for-TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to 2008. Douglas Brode covers the highlights of each actor's career, including Western movie work, if significant, to give a full sense of the actor's screen persona(s). Within the entries are discussions of scores of popular Western TV shows that explore how these programs both reflected and impacted the social world in which they aired. Brode opens the encyclopedia with a fascinating history of the TV Western that traces its roots in B Western movies, while also showing how TV Westerns developed their own unique storytelling conventions.

Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers

Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438109121

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Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server Pdf

Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.

Hollywood's West

Author : Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813171807

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Hollywood's West by Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor Pdf

American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth century, the "frontier thesis" influenced film and television producers who used the West as a backdrop for an array of dramatic explorations of America's history and the evolution of its culture and values. The common themes found in Westerns distinguish the genre as a quintessentially American form of dramatic art. In Hollywood's West, Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor, and the nation's leading film scholars analyze popular conceptions of the frontier as a fundamental element of American history and culture. This volume examines classic Western films and programs that span nearly a century, from Cimarron (1931) to Turner Network Television's recent made-for-TV movies. Many of the films discussed here are considered among the greatest cinematic landmarks of all time. The essays highlight the ways in which Westerns have both shaped and reflected the dominant social and political concerns of their respective eras. While Cimarron challenged audiences with an innovative, complex narrative, other Westerns of the early sound era such as The Great Meadow (1931) frequently presented nostalgic visions of a simpler frontier era as a temporary diversion from the hardships of the Great Depression. Westerns of the 1950s reveal the profound uncertainty cast by the cold war, whereas later Westerns display heightened violence and cynicism, products of a society marred by wars, assassinations, riots, and political scandals. The volume concludes with a comprehensive filmography and an informative bibliography of scholarly writings on the Western genre. This collection will prove useful to film scholars, historians, and both devoted and casual fans of the Western genre. Hollywood's West makes a significant contribution to the understanding of both the historic American frontier and its innumerable popular representations.

Stagecoach to Tombstone

Author : Howard Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857717016

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Stagecoach to Tombstone by Howard Hughes Pdf

The true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them...Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's "Stagecoach" to the revisionary "Tombstone". Writing with panache and fresh insight, he explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. He shows how through reinvention and resurrection, this genre continually postpones the big adios and avoids ending up in Boot Hill...permanently. Major films covered include the best from genre giants John Ford, Howard Hawks and John Wayne, plus classics "High Noon", "Shane", "The Magnificent Seven" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". "Stagecoach to Tombstone" makes many more stops along the way, examining well-known blockbusters and lowly B-movie oaters alike. It examines comedy westerns, adventures 'south of the border', singing cowboys and the varied depiction of Native Americans on screen. Hughes also engagingly charts the genre's timely renovation by Sam Peckinpah ("Ride the High Country" and "The Wild Bunch"), Sergio Leone ("Once Upon a Time in the West") and Clint Eastwood ("The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Unforgiven"). Presented too are the best of western trivia, a filmography of essential films - and ten aficionados and critics, including Alex Cox, Christopher Frayling, Philip French and Ed Buscombe, give their verdict on the best in the west.

John Ford's Stagecoach

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521797438

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The Mythical West

Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576075883

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The Mythical West by Richard W. Slatta Pdf

This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture. Ever since the days of the 49ers and George Armstrong Custer, the Old West has been America's most potent source of legend. But it is sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction. Did you know, for example, that Annie Oakley was a talented marksman who shot an estimated 40,000 rounds per year while practicing and performing for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in the late l800s? Or that many interpreters believe that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not just a fairy tale, but also a Populist allegory? These are just two of the folk legends dissected and examined in this veritable cultural geography. The volume covers everything from billionaire Howard Hughes and composer Aaron Copeland to Aztlan (the legendary first city of the Aztecs) and Area 51, the top-secret U.S. Air Force base at Groom Lake, Nevada, that has fascinated UFO and conspiracy buffs.

Whispering Smith

Author : Frank H. Spearman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752424478

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Whispering Smith by Frank H. Spearman Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Whispering Smith by Frank H. Spearman

Once Upon A Time in the Italian West

Author : Howard Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857730459

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Once Upon A Time in the Italian West by Howard Hughes Pdf

The ideal popular guide to the key Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the films that created the mythical Spaghetti West in the most improbable circumstances. Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy is covered, with many more major and minor Spaghetti Westerns, including Sergio Corbucci's "Navajo Joe", Carlo Lizzani's "The Hills Run Red" and Duccio Tessari's "A Pistol for Ringo". This popular guide explores the films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films' making, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information, box office fortunes internationally, with many illustrations, including original posters and stills.

A Drink with Shane MacGowan

Author : Shane MacGowan,Victoria Mary Clarke
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802137903

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A Drink with Shane MacGowan by Shane MacGowan,Victoria Mary Clarke Pdf

"But as A Drink with Shane MacGowan shows, the inspiration for his artistry and beliefs is as varied as his range of mind - embracing Ireland, religion, his family, esoteric philosophy and history."--Jacket.

The Latent Heterosexual

Author : Paddy Chayefsky
Publisher : New York : Random House, 1967 .
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015015529475

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The Latent Heterosexual by Paddy Chayefsky Pdf

The play, published in 1967 and performed in 1968, tells of a successful homosexual author who marries for tax purposes and finds he enjoys it. The play is a satire on corporations, business laws, taxes, trust funds, shares, debentures, and how one man allows himself to turn into a corporation.

Battle of Angels

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822200996

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Battle of Angels by Tennessee Williams Pdf

THE STORY: As in its later and substantially re-written version (entitled ORPHEUS DESCENDING), the play deals with the arrival of a virile young drifter, Val Xavier, in a sleepy, small town in rural Mississippi. He takes a job in the dry goods stor

The Invention of the Western Film

Author : Scott Simmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521555817

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Ride, Boldly Ride

Author : Mary Lea Bandy,Kevin Stoehr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520258662

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Ride, Boldly Ride by Mary Lea Bandy,Kevin Stoehr Pdf

"This book is a survey of the movie Western that covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens. The authors provide fresh perspectives on landmark films such Stagecoach, Red River, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Wild Bunch, and they also pay tribute to many underappreciated Westerns including 3 Bad Men, The Wind, The Big Trail, Ruggles of Red Gap, Northwest Passage, The Westerner, The Furies, Jubal, and Comanche Station. The book explores major phases of the Western's development--silent era oaters, A-production classics of the 1930s and early 1940s, and the more psychologically complex presentations of the Westerner that emerged in the post-World War II period.. They examine various forms of genre-revival and genre-revisionism that have recurred over the past half-century, culminating especially in the masterworks of Clint Eastwood. Central themes of the book include the inner life of the Western hero, the importance of the natural landscape, the tension between myth and history, the depiction of the Native American, and the juxtaposing of comedy and tragedy"--Provided by publisher.