Ride Lonesome by Ellis, Kirk

Ride Lonesome (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826364616)

Vendor: Kirk Ellis
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Ride Lonesome by Ellis, Kirk

Ride Lonesome

$19.95
Ride Lonesome by Ellis, Kirk

Ride Lonesome

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in the Ranown cycle, is both the best and most representative of the whole series, which has been called the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking. Director Bud Boetticher captures the alienation and loneliness of an America faced with the Cold War and the daily threat of nuclear annihilation. Shot in seventeen days for under a half-million dollars, Ride Lonesome is a masterpiece of cinematic minimalism.

Veteran screenwriter Kirk Ellis brilliantly unpacks the themes, narrative, visual language, and editing in this seminal film. In Ride Lonesome Ellis not only shows how this one film embodies a turning point for the Western, but he also explores the unique vision and contributions of director Boetticher and his writing partner Burt Kennedy.

Author: Kirk Ellis
ISBN-10: 0826364616
ISBN-13: 9780826364616
Publisher: Unm Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2023
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.69h x 4.72w x 0.39d
By Kirk Ellis
By Kirk Ellis
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Kirk Ellis is the multiple Emmy-winning screenwriter of HBO's John Adams, the Apple TV+ limited series Franklin, and other works of historical drama, including Anne Frank: The Whole Story and Into the West. He is the author, most recently, of Ride Lonesome, one of the inaugural volumes in UNM Press's Reel West series.

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