The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century

by Scott Simmon

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521555817

ISBN13:9780521555814

Release Date:June 2003

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:412 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.3" x 9.8"

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Arts, Music & Photography Communication & Media Studies Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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