The sagebrush trail : western movies and twentieth-century America / Richard Aquila.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aquila, Richard, 1946-

Series:

Modern American West

The modern American West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Western films--United States--History and criticism.

Western films.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Summary:

"The Sagebrush Trail" is a panoramic survey of western movies in the twentieth century, from Edwin Porter's "The Great Train Robbery" (1903) to Clint Eastwood's "The Unforgiven" (1992) and beyond"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue. The sagebrush trail

Part I. The rise of western movies, 1900-1914. The great train robbery : or how early western movies stole America's heart ; Blazing the trail : new directors and the rise of feature westerns ; The big trail : tracking feature westerns through depression and war ; Tumbling tumbleweeds : guns, guitars, and b-western cowboys

Part II. Transitional westerns on new frontiers, 1945-1963. The searchers : cowboys and containment on the cold war frontier ; Shane : western heroes and the culture of the cold war

Part III. "New western" horizons, 1964-1999. A fistful of dollars : spaghetti westerns and changing times ; The wild bunch : American westerns on a revisionist trail ; True grit : traditional westerns ride again! ; Silverado : the mythic west at century's end

Epilogue. Django unchained.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816531547

0816531544

9780816501052

081650105X

OCLC:

894747984