The invention of the western film : a cultural history of the genre's first half-century
The Invention of the Western Film ranges across literature, visual arts, social history, ideology and legend to provide an in-depth exploration of the early Western, from short kinetoscopes of the 1890s through the 'classic' features of the 1940s. Scott Simmon silhouettes the Western's evolution, including the rise and demise of the American Indian during the silent era, the 'B-Westerns' of the 1930s, and the Westerns of the 1940s, when aspects of film noir were adapted to the genre. All of these developments are examined within the context of the cultural forces that shaped them. Shedding new light on important celebrities, notably John Wayne and John Ford, this book also recovers forgotten masterworks from the early history of the Western
Print Book, English, 2003
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521554732, 9780521555814, 052155473X, 0521555817
50774306
pt. 1: "My friend, the indian": landscape and the extermination of the native Americna in the silent western
Indians to the rescue
The eastern western
Our friends, the Indians
The death of the western, 1911
The far-western
Wars on the plains
The politics of landscape
Pocahontas meets Custer: The Invaders
"No Indians wanted"
The west of the Mohicans
Desert places
pt. 2: "It's time for your history lesson, dear": John Wayne and the problem of history in the Hollywood western of the 1930s
The Big Trail and the weight of history
What's the big idea?
Nature's nature: philosophies of the land
Heaven's gates: philosophies of faith
Democracy's discontents: philosophies of politics
Manifestations of destiny
Rambling into surrealism: the B-western
"Don't cry, Pat, it's only a western": a note on acting
Time, space, and the western
pt. 3: "That sleep of death": John Ford and the darkness of the classic western in the 1940s
My Darling Clementine and the fight with film noir
Out of the past
"Shakespeare? In tombstone?"
"Get outta town and stay out"
"A lot of nice people around here"
"Who do we shoot?"
The revenge of film noir
The return of the Earps
Ford, Fonda, and the death of the classic western
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