The Old West In Fact And Film

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786468881

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The Old West in Fact and Film by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its portrayal in movies, taking an historical approach to its consideration of the cowboys, Indians, gunmen, lawmen and others who populated the Old West in real life and on the silver screen. Starting with the Westerns of the early 1900s, it follows the evolution in look, style, and content as the films matured from short vignettes of good-versus-bad into modern plots.

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786493111

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The Old West in Fact and Film by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its portrayal in movies, taking an historical approach to its consideration of the cowboys, Indians, gunmen, lawmen and others who populated the Old West in real life and on the silver screen. Starting with the Westerns of the early 1900s, it follows the evolution in look, style, and content as the films matured from short vignettes of good-versus-bad into modern plots.

Author : Richard A. Maynard
Publisher : Hayden Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036007701

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The American West on Film: Myth and Reality by Richard A. Maynard Pdf

Compares the reality of Western history with its Hollywood treatment in movies.

Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216047544

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The American West on Film by Johnny D. Boggs Pdf

More than a history of Western movies, The American West on Film intertwines film history, the history of the American West, and American social history into one unique volume. The American West on Film chronicles 12 Hollywood motion pictures that are set in the post–Civil War American West, including The Ox-Bow Incident, Red River, High Noon, The Searchers, The Magnificent Seven, Little Big Man, and Tombstone. Each film overview summarizes the movie's plot, details how the film came to be made, the critical and box-office reactions upon its release, and the history of the time period or actual event. This is followed by a comparison and contrast of the filmmakers' version of history with the facts, as well as an analysis of the film's significance, then and now. Relying on contemporary accounts and historical analysis as well as perspectives from filmmakers, historians, and critics, the author describes what it took to get each movie made and how close to the historical truth the movie actually got. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how movies often reflect the time in which they were made, and how Westerns can offer provocative social commentary hidden beneath old-fashioned "shoot-em-ups."

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476648125

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Prohibition and Bootlegging in the American West by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

Prohibition was imposed by eager temperance movements organizers who sought to shape public behavior through alcoholic beverage control in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The success of reformers' efforts resulted in National Prohibition in America from 1920 to 1933, but it also resulted in a thriving illegal business in the manufacture and distribution of illegal liquor. The history of Prohibition and the resulting illegal drinking is frequently told through the lens of crime and violence in Chicago and other major East Coast cities. Often neglected are the effects of Prohibition on the Western part of the United States and how Westerners rose to the challenge of avoiding the consequences of illegal drinking. Illegal liquor was imported from abroad, made in stills using strange ingredients that were sometimes poisonous to the unlucky drinker. This history includes stories ranging from serious to quirky, and provides an entertaining account of how misguided efforts resulted in numerous unintended consequences.

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476642239

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The Landscapes of Western Movies by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

Western films have often been tributes to place and setting, with the magnificent backdrops mirroring the wildness of the narratives. As the splendid outdoor scenery of Westerns could not be found on a studio back lot or on a Hollywood sound stage, the movies have been filmed in the wide open spaces of the American West and beyond. This book chronicles the history of filming Westerns on location, from shooting on the East Coast in the early 1900s; through the use of locations in Utah, Arizona, and California in the 1940s and 1950s; and filming Westerns in Mexico, Spain, and other parts of the world in the 1960s. Also studied is the relationship between the filming location timeline and the evolving motion picture industry of the twentieth century, and how these factors shaped audience perceptions of the "Real West."

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786478392

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The Creation of the Cowboy Hero by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.

Author : Ronald W. Lackmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786404000

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Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film by Ronald W. Lackmann Pdf

This work provides factual accounts of women of the Old West in contrast to their depictions on film and in fiction. The lives of Martha Calamity Jane Canary and Belle The Bandit Queen Starr are first detailed; one discovers that Starr was indeed friends with notorious bank robbers of the time, including Jesse James and Cole Younger, but was herself primarily a cattle and horse thief. Wives and lovers of some of the West's most famous outlaws are covered in the second section along with real-life female entertainers, prostitutes and gamblers. Native Americans, entrepreneurs, doctors, reformers, artists, writers, schoolteachers, and other such respectable women are covered in the third section.

Author : Herb Fagen
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816044570

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The Encyclopedia of Westerns by Herb Fagen Pdf

Presents an alphabetical listing of western films, discussing information on production, cast, and crew, and offering a summary of the plot, and a critical analysis.

Author : Jennifer L. McMahon,B. Steve Csaki
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813173856

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The Philosophy of the Western by Jennifer L. McMahon,B. Steve Csaki Pdf

The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America's history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western embodies America and its values. In recent years, scholars had declared the western genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western themes in literature, film, and television has reestablished the genre as one of the most important. In The Philosophy of the Western, editors Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki examine philosophical themes in the western genre. Investigating subjects of nature, ethics, identity, gender, environmentalism, and animal rights, the essays draw from a wide range of westerns including the recent popular and critical successes Unforgiven (1992), All the Pretty Horses (2000), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as literature and television serials such as Deadwood. The Philosophy of the Western reveals the influence of the western on the American psyche, filling a void in the current scholarship of the genre.

Author : Dr. Jim Vickrey, Ph.D., J.D.
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781480990333

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ROY, “ROCKY” & RED RYDER; “HOPPY,” DURANGO & MO[O]RE by Dr. Jim Vickrey, Ph.D., J.D. Pdf

ROY, “ROCKY” & RED RYDER; “HOPPY”, DURANGO & MO(O)RE By: Dr. Jim Vickrey, Ph.D., J.D. From Chapter One: The Wages of Cinema -- on Coming of Age on the B-Western Movie Range, to the Conclusion: Why You Can Yet Join Me in Riding the Range Again ..., author Dr. Jim Vickrey is "hopeful that the experiences I've had while researching and writing this movie-related memoir will engender within readers the same happy thoughts I had and have resulting from my first and every subsequent encounter thereafter with the world of Western, particularly B-Western, cinema”

Author : Andy Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781531298593

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The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams Pdf

A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail. Guided by his plainspoken, sure-saddled voice and the living, breathing feel of firsthand experience on every page, we relive dusty cattle drives, perilous river crossings, honor-based gunfights, and narrow escapes from buffalo stampedes, not to mention tall tales passed around the campfire and such unforgettable characters as Bull Durham and Bill Blades.

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 1555912958

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Wild Women Of The Old West by Richard W. Etulain Pdf

Author : Buck Rainey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476603285

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Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film by Buck Rainey Pdf

Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Belle Starr, Wyatt Earp, the Younger Gang, the Dalton-Doolin Gang and Bat Masterson—these real-life lawmen and lawbreakers have been the basis of so many Hollywood Westerns that it has become difficult to discover where the truth ends and the legend begins. All actually became larger-than-life characters during their lifetimes, as contemporary newspapers and books embellished their deeds for their own purposes. But it was in Hollywood that the line between reality and myth was completely blurred. Each chapter-length entry here first focuses on the known facts of the people’s lives and how each became truly legendary during their lifetimes. The reality is then compared to how they have been portrayed in the movies.

Author : Frank Clifford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806185408

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Deep Trails in the Old West by Frank Clifford Pdf

Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of lives—and raised a lot of hell—in the first quarter of his life. The number of times he changed his name—Clifford being just one of them—suggests that he often traveled just steps ahead of the law. During the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit led him all over the Southwest, crossing the paths of many of the era’s most notorious characters, most notably Clay Allison and Billy the Kid. More than just an entertaining and informative narrative of his Wild West adventures, Clifford’s memoir also paints a picture of how ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940 and edited and annotated by Frederick Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old West is likely one of the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered. As Frank Clifford, the author rode with outlaw Clay Allison’s Colfax County vigilantes, traveled with Charlie Siringo, cowboyed on the Bell Ranch, contended with Apaches, and mined for gold in Hillsboro. In 1880 he was one of the Panhandle cowboys sent into New Mexico to recover cattle stolen by Billy the Kid and his compañeros—and in the process he got to know the Kid dangerously well. In unveiling this work, Nolan faithfully preserves Clifford’s own words, providing helpful annotation without censoring either the author’s strong opinions or his racial biases. For all its roughness, Deep Trails in the Old West is a rich resource of frontier lore, customs, and manners, told by a man who saw the Old West at its wildest—and lived to tell the tale.