Westerns : films through history /
edited by Janet Walker.
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
- viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. NFIC
- AFI film readers .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: part one. historical metafiction: 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. -- Part two. 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 -- Part three. 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 -- Part four. History through narrative -- 10. Captive images in the traumatic western: The searchers, Pursued, Once upon a time in the west, and Lone star -- Janet Walker.
0415924235 0415924243 (pbk.)
00051708
Western films--History and criticism.--United States
PN1995.9.W4 / W44 2001
791.43/6278
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: part one. historical metafiction: 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. -- Part two. 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 -- Part three. 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 -- Part four. History through narrative -- 10. Captive images in the traumatic western: The searchers, Pursued, Once upon a time in the west, and Lone star -- Janet Walker.
0415924235 0415924243 (pbk.)
00051708
Western films--History and criticism.--United States
PN1995.9.W4 / W44 2001
791.43/6278