The landscape of Hollywood westerns : ecocriticism in an American film genre / edited by Deborah A. Carmichael. - Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2006. - vi, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes filmography: 229-233. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Western ecological films : the subgenre with no name / by John Shelton Lawrence -- Nature conquering, or, Nature conquered in the wind (1928) / by Freedonia Paschall and Robert G. Weiner -- Landscapes of failure in John Ford's Grapes of wrath (1939) / by Robert C. Sickels -- Tulsa (1949) as an oil field film : a study in ecological ambivalence / by Peter C. Rollins -- Hydraulic mining then and now : the case of Pale rider (1985) / by Joe Huemann and Robin Murray -- East goes West : the technicolor environment of Northwest passage (1939) / by Susan Glover -- Haunted by waters : the river in American films of the West / by Mary Pinard -- Nature and heartland (1980) / by Jessie L. Embry -- Easy rider (1969) : landscaping the modern western / by Elaine M. Bapis -- Cinematic conquest : breaking the Mexican American connection to the land in the movies / by Carl Wilmsen -- The living presence of Monument Valley in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) / by Deborah A. Carmichael -- A filmography of Western films with ecocritical and environmental representations / by John Shelton Lawrence.

9780874808667 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0874808669 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2006010190


Western films--History and criticism.--United States
Nature in motion pictures.

PN1995.9.W4 / L32 2006

791.43/6278

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