Search results for “[Subject: westerns]”

• Author(s): Joel Fineman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJoel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called making st...

• Author(s): Victor Carl Friesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a literary discussion of one-half of Zane Grey's Westerns, selected to best show the broad scope of this p...

• Author(s): R. Philip Loy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General For many, the Westerns of 1930 to 1955 were a defining part of American culture. Those Westerns were one of the v...

• Author(s): Henryk Hoffmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General References to western movies scattered over some 250 works by more than 130 authors constitute the subject matt...

• Author(s): John E. Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Thomas Burr Fisher was one of five brothers who served, between them, in the Fourt...

• Author(s): Henryk Hoffmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Westerns may have had their heyday, but they remain popular. The greatest films from 1914, when...

• Author(s): Boyd Magers | Michael G. Fitzgerald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This collection features a diverse mixture of leading ladies of Westerns, along with ...

• Author(s): William Darby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production John Ford's early Westerns reflect an optimistic view of society and individual capacity; as h...

• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The western genre touched on ideals of honor, conquest, and freedom of spirit, and its stories packed cinemas ...

• Author(s): Bill Mesce • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns One of the most controversial films of its time, The Wild Bunch is the epitome of the no-holds-barred film...

• Author(s): Gene Blottner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews From 1947 through 1963, the merged studios of Universal and International produced mostly highly ent...

• Author(s): Kenneth E. Hall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall...

• Author(s): Ed Andreychuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism A perfect blend of characterization, action and poetic images, John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) made...

• Author(s): Francis Oakley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Catholic - GeneralFrancis Oakley addresses late-medieval church history in its own terms, pointing out not onl...

• Author(s): Richard West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism These heroes came riding into America's living rooms in one form or another from the earliest days...

• Author(s): William Hampes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns Film and television Westerns are most often associated with physical bravery. However, many--especiall...

• Author(s): C. Courtney Joyner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Actors, writers, directors and producers who helped define the genre offer unique insight ab...

• Author(s): Brian Hannan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns In 1969--the counter-cultural moment when Easy Rider triggered a "youthquake" in audience interests--Wes...

• Author(s): Scott F. Stoddart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism American moviegoers have long turned to the Hollywood Western for reassurance in times of cri...

• Author(s): Jeremy Agnew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing We...

• Author(s): Barrie Hanfling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Over the past century, the western has fluctuated in popularity. By 2010 it has come to stand, ...

• Author(s): David Meuel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Beginning in the mid-1940s, the bleak, brooding mood of film noir began seeping into that most opti...

• Author(s): Gene Blottner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General After Fox released In Old Arizona, the first feature length western with sound, in 1929, Universal president Carl...

• Author(s): Buck Rainey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Belle Starr, Wyatt Earp, the Younger Gang, the Dalton-Doolin Gang ...

• Author(s): R. Philip Loy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Many people have fond memories of Friday nights and Saturday afternoons spent in theatres watchin...

• Author(s): Gary A. Yoggy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The western is one of the most popular genres in American film history, and some estimate more th...

• Author(s): Buck Rainey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Movies and books have romanticized the life of the cowboy. To most, the heroes of countless Westerns fall into one ...

• Author(s): Hunt Janin | André Kahlmeyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Islamic The sharia is a set of traditional laws that define a Muslim's obligations to God and his fellow human be...

• Author(s): Sue Matheson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute ...

• Author(s): Bob Herzberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In their heyday, pulp westerns were one of America's most popular forms of entertainment. Often selling for less t...

• Author(s): Robert Nott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been o...

• Author(s): Gene Freese • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns Robert Mitchum was--and still is--one of Hollywood's defining stars of Western film. For more than 30 yea...

• Author(s): Bert Fridlund • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of spaghetti westerns--low-budget films about the early Ameri...

• Author(s): Robert B. Parker • Publisher: Berkley Books • Publisher Imprint: Berkley Books • BISAC: Westerns - GeneralIn the wild and untamed West, two honorable gunfighters find themselves caught in a gritty battle that threatens the peaceful t...

• Author(s): Michael G. Fitzgerald | Boyd Magers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This work features interviews with 51 leading ladies who starred in B-weste...