The Neon Hollywood Cowboy
Author: Matt Mitchell
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-15
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781941985250
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Author: Matt Mitchell
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-15
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781941985250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Cronlund Anderson
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780820495453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Through Hollywood - the history teacher who reaches the largest audiences - the imagery of conquest has become effectively naturalized, glorified, and personified in the guise of the mythical frontiersman, such as John Wayne and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. This book examines eighteen movies, ranging from The Green Berets to Raiders of the Lost Ark, from Red River to Hidalgo. Others, from Full Metal Jacket to The Big Lebowski."--Jacket.
Author: Patti Dickinson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780803266193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates the dangers and adventures of a 20-year-old cowboy's fifty-day journey from Guthrie, Oklahoma, to Hollywood on a Osage Indian pony, carrying only a Colt revolver and a few belongings.
Author: Don Graham
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTexans have two pasts: the one they lived and the one Hollywood created. Cowboys and Cadillacs is a lively exploration of the Texas myth in film.
Author: Diana Serra Cary
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780806128351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 1912, when the great cattle empires began to crumble, hundreds of seasoned cowboys found themselves jobless. A handful of discarded horsemen, however, stumbled upon an entirely new frontier-Hollywood. In a rare insider’s view, Diana Serra Cary tells the story of these cowboys, who survived for another fifty years as riders, stuntmen, and doubles for the stars. Filled with humorous anecdotes, The Hollywood Posse reveals the full story of the cowboys’ long and bitter feud with autocratic director Cecil B. De Mille; their relationships with the great Western stars-from the flamboyant Tom Mix to the durable John Wayne; and above all, their touching loyalty, code of honor, and devotion to each other.
Author: Robert B. Pippin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-06-22
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0300145780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state’s claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.Pippin’s account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy.
Author: Keith Ryan Cartwright
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1496229495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursuits intersect with those of America’s struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social justice. Keith Ryan Cartwright brings to life the stories of such pioneers as Cleo Hearn, the first Black cowboy to professionally rope in the Rodeo Cowboy Association; Myrtis Dightman, who became known as the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo after being the first Black cowboy to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo; and Tex Williams, the first Black cowboy to become a state high school rodeo champion in Texas. Black Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of one hundred years of stories, told by these revolutionary Black pioneers themselves and set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country.
Author: Richard W. Slatta
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780393314731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Author: Dirk Benedict
Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013-06-27
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0757052770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best-selling memoir Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy tells the fascinating story of actor Dirk Benedict’s journey from the big sky country of Montana to the hustle and hype of Hollywood. It also describes his odyssey of self-discovery and growth as he changes from struggling actor to celebrity, from meat eater to vegetarian, from cancer victim to cancer victor. Brilliantly written—insightful, witty, and always challenging—Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy may change the way you perceive actors, and even make you reconsider the truths in your own life.
Author: Thomas Henderson
Publisher:
Published: 1988-09
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780671663261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this harrowing, true account, Henderson lays bare the locker room legends, the wild partying, the rampant addiction and the unwritten rule of the pro sports world that anything goes--as long as you win the game. A tough, brutal, agonizing story . . .--Howard Cosell.P. Putnam.