The Sagebrush Trail : Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
- The Modern American West Series .
- The Modern American West Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. The Sagebrush Trail -- Part I. The Rise of Western Movies, 1900-1944 -- 1. The Great Train Robbery: Or How Early Western Movies Stole America's Heart -- 2. Blazing the Trail: New Directors and the Rise of Feature Westerns -- 3. The Big Trail: Tracking Feature Westerns Through Depression and War -- 4. Tumbling Tumbleweeds: Guns, Guitars, and B-Western Cowboys -- Part II. Transitional Westerns on New Frontiers, 1945-1963 -- 5. The Searchers: Cowboys and Containmenton the Cold War Frontier -- 6. Shane: Western Heroes and the Culture of the Cold War -- Part III. "New Western" Horizons, 1964-1999 -- 7. A Fistful of Dollars: Spaghetti Westerns and Changing Times -- 8. The Wild Bunch: American Westerns on a Revisionist Trail -- 9. True Grit: Traditional Westerns Ride Again! -- 10. Silverado: The Mythic West at Century's End -- Epilogue. Django Unchained -- Notes -- Index.
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Western films-United States-History and criticism.