Westerns
Subtitle: films through history
By: edited by Janet Walker.
Contributors: Walker, Janet, 1955-
Series: AFI film readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Western films -- United States -- History and criticism
Description: "The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre. In Westerns, leading scholars unpack the ways in which the form has embellished, mythologized, and erased past events. Contributors explore the mythic "Wild West" envisioned by "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the revisionist aims of recent westerns like Posse, Lone Star, and Dead Man, and how the genre addresses key issues of biography, authenticity, race, and representation. Included is an introduction by Janet Walker"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: part one. historical metafiction: the 1990s western; title: 1. generic subversion as counterhistory:; title: mario van peebles's posse; title: alexandra keller; title: 2. a tale N/nobody can tell: the return of a repressed; title: western history in jim jarmusch's dead man; title: melinda szaloky; title: 3. the burden of history and john sayles's lone star; title: tomds f sandoval, jr.; title: part two. historiophoty: buffalo bill, the indians,; title: and the western biopic; title: 4. cowboy wonderland, history and myth:; title: "it ain't all that different than real life"; title: william g. simon and louise spence; title: 5. life-like, vivid, and thrilling pictures:; title: buffalo bill's wild west and early cinema; title: joy s. kasson; title: 6. buffalo bill (himself):; title: history and memory in the western biopic; title: corey k. creekmur; title: part three. film history: widening horizons; title: 7. how the west was sung; title: kathryn kalinak; title: 8. drums along the l.a. river: scoring the indian; title: claudia gorbman; title: 9. beyond the western frontier:; title: reappropriations of the "good badman"; title: in france, the french colonies,; title: and contemporary algeria; title: peterj. bloom; title: part four. history through narrative; title: 10. captive images in the traumatic western:; title: the searchers, pursued, once upon a time in the west,; title: and lone star; title: janet walker; title: contributors; title: index.