The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521555814)

The Invention of the Western Film ranges across literature, visual arts, social history, ideology, and legend to provide, for the first time, an in-depth exploration of the early Western, from short kinetoscopes of the 1890s through "classic" features of the 1940s. By examining the American Indian's rise and demise during the silent era, B- Westerns of the 1930s, and film noir-influenced Westerns of the 1940s, Scott Simmon's pioneering study silhouettes the genre's evolution against a myriad of cultural forces. This lively, encyclopedic book revitalizes familiar Western icons John Wayne and John Ford, and recovers forgotten masterworks from the Western film's formative years.

Author: Scott Simmon
ISBN-10: 0521555817
ISBN-13: 9780521555814
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2003
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.80h x 5.32w x 1.01d