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Westerns : films through history / edited by Janet Walker.

Contributor(s): Series: AFI film readersPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2001.Description: viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415924235
  • 0415924243 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6278 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.W4 W44 2001
Contents:
PT. 1. HISTORICAL METAFICTON: THE 1990S WESTERN : 1. Generic subversion as counterhistory: Mario Van Peebles's Posse / Alexandra Keller -- 2. A tale N/nobody can tell: the return of a repressed western history in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man / Melinda Szaloky -- 3. The burden of history and John Sayles's Lone Star / Tomas F. Sandoval, Jr. PT. 2. HISTORIOPHOTY: BUFFALO BILL, THE INDIANS, AND THE WESTERN BIOPIC : 4. Cowboy wonderland, history and myth: "it ain't all that different than real life" / William G. Simon and Louise Spence -- 5. Life-like, vivid, and thrilling pictures: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and early cinema / Joy S. Kasson -- 6. Buffalo Bill (himself): history and memory in the western biopic / Corey K. Creekmur. PT. 3. FILM HISTORY: WIDENING HORIZONS : 7. How the west was sung / Kathryn Kalinak -- 8. Drums along the L.A. river: scoring the Indian / Claudia Gorbman -- 9. Beyond the western frontier: reappropriations of the "good badman" in France, the French colonies, and contemporary Algeria / Peter J. Bloom. PT. 4. HISTORY THROUGH NARRATIVE : 10. Captive images in the traumatic western: The Searchers, Pursued, Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Lone Star / Janet Walker.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN1995.9 .W4 W44 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000697523

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PT. 1. HISTORICAL METAFICTON: THE 1990S WESTERN : 1. Generic subversion as counterhistory: Mario Van Peebles's Posse / Alexandra Keller -- 2. A tale N/nobody can tell: the return of a repressed western history in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man / Melinda Szaloky -- 3. The burden of history and John Sayles's Lone Star / Tomas F. Sandoval, Jr. PT. 2. HISTORIOPHOTY: BUFFALO BILL, THE INDIANS, AND THE WESTERN BIOPIC : 4. Cowboy wonderland, history and myth: "it ain't all that different than real life" / William G. Simon and Louise Spence -- 5. Life-like, vivid, and thrilling pictures: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and early cinema / Joy S. Kasson -- 6. Buffalo Bill (himself): history and memory in the western biopic / Corey K. Creekmur. PT. 3. FILM HISTORY: WIDENING HORIZONS : 7. How the west was sung / Kathryn Kalinak -- 8. Drums along the L.A. river: scoring the Indian / Claudia Gorbman -- 9. Beyond the western frontier: reappropriations of the "good badman" in France, the French colonies, and contemporary Algeria / Peter J. Bloom. PT. 4. HISTORY THROUGH NARRATIVE : 10. Captive images in the traumatic western: The Searchers, Pursued, Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Lone Star / Janet Walker.

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