Overview
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
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 19, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 410 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 052155473X
- | ISBN-13: 9780521554732
