Author: Robert Nott
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476613729
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Yet these three actors played a crucial role in the changing environment of the post-World War II Western, and, in the process, made many excellent middle-budget films that are still a pleasure to watch. This account of these three Western stars' careers begins in 1946, when Scott and McCrea committed themselves to the Western roles they would play for nearly twenty years. Murphy, who also joined them in 1946, would continue his Western career for a few years after his cohorts rode into the film sunset. Arranged chronologically, and balanced among the three actors, the text concludes with Audie Murphy's last Western in 1967. Covering both the personal and professional lives of these three Hollywood cowboys, the book provides both their stories and the story of a Hollywood whose attitude toward the Western was in a time of transition and transformation. The text is complemented by 60 photographs and a filmography for each of the three.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780931064357
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Contains black and white film photos and commentary on Western films and their cowboy stars.
Author: Robert W. Phillips
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879055806
Category : Film posters, American
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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[4] p. booklet and eight reduced reproductions of Western movie posters.
Author: William W. Savage
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806119205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Analyzes the modern myth of the cowboy as it appears in movies, advertising, the rodeo, and fiction, and gauges its effect on American thought
Author: Bob Nareau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Western films
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Author: Gene Freese
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476678499
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Robert Mitchum was--and still is--one of Hollywood's defining stars of Western film. For more than 30 years, the actor played the weary and cynical cowboy, and his rough-and-tough presence on-screen was no different than his one off-screen. With a personality fit for western-noir, Robert Mitchum dominated the genre during the mid-20th century, and returned as the anti-hero again during the 1990s before his death. This book lays down the life of Mitchum and the films that established him as one of Hollywood's strongest and smartest horsemen. Going through early classics like Pursued (1947) and Blood on the Moon (1948) to more recent cult favorites like Tombstone (1993) and Dead Man (1995), Freese shows how Mitchum's nuanced portrayals of the iconic anti-hero of the West earned him his spot in the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Author: Steve Carver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783283012908
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The American West, as we know it, is defined by the movies, and the Western is the oldest film genre. When the movies were born, it was not that long after Promontory Point and the Civil War, so those memories were still there in the minds of the very first movie audiences as they watched The Great Train Robbery. And the myth-making is as important as the brutal truths of history. As the reporter tells Jimmy Stewart in Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Rendered in rare, evocative tones reminiscent of Edward Sheriff Curtis's immortal photographs, Western Portraits provides readers with a collection of stylized portraits that capture the allure and mystique of the Old West, complete with authentic costuming, weaponry and settings. From the epic feature film to the TV series and serial, this coffee table book will put the story of character actors and the significance of their memorable roles into an entertaining perspective. The subjects include such popular, recognizable actors as Karl Malden, David Carradine, Denver Pyle, R. G. Armstrong, L. Q. Jones, Horst Buchholz, Henry Silva, Ruta Lee, Morgan Woodward, Bo Hopkins, Clu Gulager and 72 others. The market for this book will include lovers of classic cinema, Western history aficionados, writers, scholars and collectors of nostalgia and fine art photography. It will awaken movie memories in people's hearts, introduce others to the amazing work of these acting artists and serve as a record of the best of the Hollywood Western. THE PHOTOGRAPHS: R. G. Armstrong, John Beck, Crispian Belfrage, Bruce Boxleitner, Tom Bower, Horst Buchholz, R. D. Call, John "Bud" Cardos, David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Johnny Crawford, Rick Dano, Michael Dante, Robert Davi, Bruce Davison, Lee de Broux, Fred Dryer, Robert Evans, Ed Faulkner, Al Fleming, Robert Forster, Rosemary Forsyth, Gray Frederickson, Max Gail, Bruce Glover, Billy Green Bush, Clu Gulager, Buddy Hackett, George Hamilton, Gregory Harrison, Richard Harrison, Richard Herd, Louis Herthum, Darby Hinton, Bo Hopkins, John Dennis Johnston, L. Q. Jones, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Terry Kiser, Jeff Kober, Paul Koslo, Marty Kove, Art LaFleur, Ruta Lee, Ken Luckey, Barbara Luna, Karl Malden, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, Monte Markham, Ken Medlock, Dick Miller, Chris Mulkey, Jan Murray, Louis Nye, Hugh O'Brian, Michael Par , Michael Parks, Denver Pyle, Richard Roundtree, Peter Mark Richman, Jorge Rivero, Stefanie Powers, Mitchell Ryan, John Savage, John Schneider, Jacqueline Scott, Henry Silva, Tom Sizemore, Paul L. Smith, William Smith, Phil Spangenberger, Bo Svenson, Tim Thomerson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jesse Vint, Hunter von Leer, Kateri Walker, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Lana Wood, Robert Wood, Morgan Woodward, Rob Word, Harris Yulin; with photographs in book's back section of Steve Carver, C. Courtney Joyner, Robert Zinner, Danny Chuchian
Author: Jeremy Agnew
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078647839X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.
Author: Robert B. Pippin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300145780
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state’s claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.Pippin’s account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy.
Author: Helen Akitt
Publisher: Character-19
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Westerns are one of the oldest, most enduring, and most typically American of film genres. Set on the American frontier during the last part of the 19th century, they portray the conquest of the wilderness and the taming of nature, in the name of civilization. Hollywood sold its stories about the West to an eager American public, from the series westerns of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers with their clean-cut stars, fun-loving sidekicks, and guitar-strumming sing-alongs, to the obsessed, revenge-bent heroes of Anthony Mann’s majestic 1950s westerns. Western myths, legends, and heroes have entered American popular culture – from clothes (denim jackets, jeans, and cowboy boots) to children’s toys (cap guns, rubber-tipped arrows, and tom toms) and its vocabulary has entered the English language (such as “round up,” and “bury the hatchet”). It created a “code of honor” by which all mid-20th-century children wanted to live, and it made household names of a myriad of actors. Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and Tom Mix were among the heroes doing battle with the American Indians who were, rightly or wrongly, portrayed as the enemy. The western seemed likely to fade away in the face of post-war cynicism, and it was only when movies such as Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves and Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven repositioned the genre in the 1990s that it once again seemed possible that the western could survive as a modern art form. This lavishly illustrated, fact-packed publication traces the history of the Hollywood western and the influence it has had on individuals and society, looking behind the scenes to tell the story both on and off screen.
