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Author : Sam Shepard
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0573617287
A powerful, yet funny confrontation between two brothers set in the contemporary West.
Author : William R. Handley,Nathaniel Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080325976X
In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in literature,øpopular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention. Given the ongoing economic and social transformations in this vast region, the persistent nostalgia and desire for the ?real? authentic West suggest regional and national identities at odds with themselves. True West explores the concept of authenticity as it is used to invent, test, advertise, and read the West. The fifteen essays collected here apply contemporary critical and cultural theory to western literary history, Native American literature and identities, the visual West, and the imagining of place. Ranging geographically from the Canadian Prairies to Buena Park?s Entertainment Corridor in Southern California, and chronologically from early tourist narratives to contemporary environmental writing, True West challenges many assumptions we make about western writing and opens the door to an important new chapter in western literary history and cultural criticism.
Author : Christine Mather
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028416736
The best-seller that presents the living traditions and the design highlights of Western life. Collector's treasures of cowboy gear, leather goods, rugs and textiles, and even 1950s "Cowboyana" are here in rich detail, along with adobe homes, mountain cabins, and historic ranches; round-ups and rodeos; and wagon wheels and movie stills. Full-color photographs.
Author : David Whish-Wilson
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925815719
Western Australia, 1988. After betraying the Knights bikie gang, 17-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city with nothing left to lose. Working as a rogue tow truck driver in Perth, he is captured by right-wing extremists whose combination of seduction and blackmail keeps him on the wrong side of the law and under their control.As the true nature of what is driving his captors unfolds, Lee becomes an unwilling participant in a breathtakingly ambitious plot &– and a cold-blooded crime that will show just how much he, and everyone else, still has to lose.A noir crime novel, True West is full of white-knuckle suspense perfect for readers who like thrilling, gritty fiction.PRAISE FOR THE BOOK&‘ But for all of Whish-Wilson' s skill with impactful action and white-knuckle suspense, True West ultimately reveals itself as a complex morality tale about the tenacious spread of prejudice.' Books+Publishing&‘ This is compelling, thrilling, and still feels like it could be played out today ...' Readings
Author : Mifflin Lowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1733633510
Text and illustrations look at some of the unsung heroes of the American West including Buffalo soldiers, Mexican cowboys, Chinese railroad workers, and more.
Author : Michael Barson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131635117
Return with us to yesteryear, when cowboys were cowboys and gunslingers lurked around every corner. Today that colorful period continues to resonate in the collective imagination of red-blooded Americans everywhere--and now we have True West, which illustrates, in hundreds of full-color illustrations, how America's mass media stamped that vision so indelibly on our collective unconscious over the past century, into today. Boasting hundreds of rare and colorful movie posters, pulp magazines, television memorabilia, advertisements, paperback books, record album jackets, toys, and clothing, True West covers such hugely popular television series as Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, and Bonanza, along with classic Western novels, including Shane, The Searchers, Welcome to Hard Times and that epic of all epics, Lonesome Dove. True West bows to the icons who ruled the silver screen--Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood, to name a few, while offering up such indelible movie triumphs as Red River, The Searchers, Hud, The Wild Bunch, and Unforgiven. It also showcases the great Western comic books and comic strips--Colt, Red Ryder, Straight Arrow, and Jonah Hex--along with all those nifty toys and other ephemera that helped link kids to celluloid heroes like Hopalong Cassidy, Roy and Dale, and the ubiquitous Gene Autry. And what would the Wild West be without an accompanying soundtrack? True West reproduces the sublime album covers and sheet music that served up classic odes like "Streets of Laredo" and "Cool Water," narrative ballads like "El Paso" (with Marty Robbins bedecked in his black gunfighter togs on the cover!), and "High Noon."
Author : Mara Leveritt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781471131073
Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers. For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stumped. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers - alleged members of a satanic cult - with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials and a case that included stunning investigative blunders, the teenagers, who became known as the West Memphis Three, were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state - even upheld on appeal - and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. In Devil's Knot, award-winning investigative journalist Mara Leveritt presents the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on this story - one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history. In-depth research, meticulous reconstruction of the investigation and close-up views of its key participants unravel the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case.
Author : Shirley Ayn Linder
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786473359
The legend of Doc Holliday is now well past a century old. While his time on earth was brief, troubled and filled with pain, his legend took wings and flew. Beginning with his part in the now famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Denver newspapers first told his story in the late 19th century. They, followed by words of Wyatt Earp, grasped the glimmer of his tale. So enamored was the public that by 1939 he was a literary icon and his character had appeared in eight films. Historians, authors, screenwriters and eventually television refined the legend, which reached its apex perhaps with the 1993 film Tombstone. Doc Holliday's image has neither dimmed nor wavered in the 21st century. Broadway, country music and art join with literature and film to continue his mystique as the personification of a surviving legend of the U.S. West.
Author : Jared Orsi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199768721
A historian offers the biography of the soldier and explorer for whom Pike's Peak is named, describing his amazing expeditions through areas that would become modern-day Mississippi, Minnesota and Arkansas before being captured by the Spanish.
Author : Buck Rainey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786403967
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 : Christopher J. Duerksen,James Van Hemert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015059559933
Millions of Americans are moving west, attracted by big skies, majestic scenery, abundant wildlife, and a romantic past. Unfortunately, many developments built to accommodate these newcomers flout the landscape and ignore local traditions threatening the very qualities that make the West beautiful and unique. It is not too late to prevent more damage and preserve the best of the West for future generations. True West translates the key elements of authentic Western development patterns-drawn from Native American, Spanish, and early American settlements-into design guidelines for expansion and new development. Comprehensive case studies examine contemporary developments that embrace historic patterns and harmonize with the landscape.True West is an exceptional resource for Western Planners and elected officials who are committed to ensuring growth that respects the region's distinctive character and natural environment.
Author : True West Magazine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732917116
For 65 years, True West magazine has inspired travelers to take the road less traveled and explore the historic sites and towns of the American West. Now, in honor of its 65th anniversary, the publishers of True West have compiled the essential Old West guidebook, which takes the traveler to where Old West history happened in 22 Western states.
Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442256064
100 Greatest American Plays is the 1st book on the 100 greatest American, non-musical plays. Arranged alphabetically, each entry covers each play extensively including the plot, the production history, a summary of the critical reaction, its influence and long-range effects, cast lists of notable stage and film versions, and a playwright biography.
Author : Richard M. Patterson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803287569
Presents an account of the life, times, and crimes of the legendary outlaw
Author : Stephen J. Bottoms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521587913
This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepard's career from his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s to the 1994 play Simpatico. Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, True West, Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind are all examined in depth. Concentrating on his playwriting, this book charts Shepard's various developments and shifts of direction, and the changing contexts in which his work appeared. Engaging, informative, and insightful, The Theatre of Sam Shepard is the definitive source on the works of this innovative and original writer.