The Collector's Book of Westerns

The Collector's Book of Westerns

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Publisher: Wordsworth Classics

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 1407

ISBN-13: 9781840226492

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A collection from some of the greatest classic writers of the compelling body of literature that immortalized ranchers and cowpunchers, trappers and prospectors, gamblers and lawmen.


Westerns

Westerns

Author: Gary R. Edgerton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1135765081

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For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and television to explore questions of national identity and purpose. Westerns: The Essential Collection comprises the Journal of Popular Film and Television’s rich and longstanding legacy of scholarship on Westerns with a new special issue devoted exclusively to the genre. This collection examines and analyzes the evolution and significance of the screen Western from its earliest beginnings to its current global reach and relevance in the 21st century. Westerns: The Essential Collection addresses the rise, fall and durability of the genre, and examines its preoccupation with multicultural matters in its organizational structure. Containing eighteen essays published between 1972 and 2011, this seminal work is divided into six sections covering Silent Westerns, Classic Westerns, Race and Westerns, Gender and Westerns, Revisionist Westerns and Westerns in Global Context. A wide range of international contributors offer original critical perspectives on the intricate relationship between American culture and Western films and television series. Westerns: The Essential Collection places the genre squarely within the broader aesthetic, socio-historical, cultural and political dimensions of life in the United States as well as internationally, where the Western has been reinvigorated and reinvented many times. This groundbreaking anthology illustrates how Western films and television series have been used to define the present and discover the future by looking backwards at America’s imagined past.


Classic Westerns

Classic Westerns

Author: Owen Wister

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-01

Total Pages: 1634

ISBN-13: 1684121051

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Discover six classic novels as you follow the footsteps of the trailblazers who settled the American West. As the American West opened up to settlers after the Civil War, people were eager for tales of great adventures, endless possibilities, and the pioneering spirit. Classic Westerns is a collection of six novels that captured this sense of exploration and brought the rugged landscape into the homes of readers everywhere. These novels—The Virginian by Owen Wister, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, The Lone Star Ranger and The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey, and Gunman’s Reckoning and The Untamed by Max Brand—tell of life on the open plains, in dusty outposts, and alongside majestic mountain ranges that rose to greet travelers who ventured forth into the unexplored country to find their destinies.


The John Wayne Word Search Book – The Westerns Large Print Edition

The John Wayne Word Search Book – The Westerns Large Print Edition

Author: Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine

Publisher: Media Lab Books

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781948174046

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Building off of the success of The John Wayne Ultimate Puzzle Book, this new title is devoted to word search puzzles, one of the most popular puzzle categories. Each puzzle focuses on one of Duke’s popular western movies, with hidden words detailing actors, characters, plot points, directors and awards. John Wayne enthusiasts – and western movie lovers in general – will find hours of fun to be had in this book. The book also includes hundreds of exclusive photos from Duke’s films, both infront of the camera as well as behind the scenes, plus quotes, Duke trivia, and much more.


The Comic Book Western

The Comic Book Western

Author: Christopher Conway

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022-06

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 149621899X

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The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.


Showdown, Confronting Modern America in the Western Film

Showdown, Confronting Modern America in the Western Film

Author: John H. Lenihan

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780252012549

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Showdown is a study of America's oldest, most representative film genre, the Western movie from the perspective of social allegory. It assesses scores of major and minor films to show how Westerns function as vehicles for contemporary social and political critiques of American life.


Cowboy Collectibles and Western Memorabilia

Cowboy Collectibles and Western Memorabilia

Author: Bob Ball

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780887405051

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The exciting area of the cowboy and wild west collectibles includes rifles, pistols, saddles, clothing, boots, hats, blankets, gun rigs, and even barbed wire. This wonderful book helps make an era come alive.


The Western in the Global South

The Western in the Global South

Author: MaryEllen Higgins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1317551060

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The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre.