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The Invention of the Western Film : A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century
by Scott Simmon
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The Invention of the Western Film ranges across literature, visual arts, social history, ideology, and legend to provide, for the first time, an in-depth exploration of the early Western, from short kinetoscopes of the 1890s through "classic" features of the 1940s. By examining the American Indian's rise and demise during the silent era, B- Westerns of the 1930s, and film noir-influenced Westerns of the 1940s, Scott Simmon's pioneering study silhouettes the genre's evolution against a myriad of cultural forces. This lively, encyclopedic book revitalizes familiar Western icons John Wayne and John Ford, and recovers forgotten masterworks from the Western film's formative years.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521554732
- ISBN-10: 052155473X
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: February 2004
- Dimensions: 8.74 x 6.74 x 1.17 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
- Page Count: 410
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