Focus on the western.
Series: Film focus; A Spectrum book
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Western films -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Nachbar, J. Introduction.; title: Esselman, K. C. From Camelot to Monument Valley.; title: Etulain, R. W. Cultural origins of the western.; title: Tuska, J. The American western cinema, 1903-present.; title: Warshow, R. Movie chronicle: the Westerner.; title: Cawelti, J. G. Savagery, civilization, and the western hero.; title: Kitses, J. The western: ideology and archetype.; title: Elkin, F. The psychological appeal for children of the Hollywood B western.; title: Ross, T. J. Western approaches: a note on dialogue.; title: Folsom, J. K. Westerns as social and political alternatives.; title: Homans, P. Puritanism revisited.; title: Marsden, M. T. Savior in the saddle.; title: Nachbar, J. Riding shotgun.; title: Cawelti, J. G. Reflections on the new western films.; title: Brauer, R. Who are those guys?; title: Seventy years on the trail: a selected chronology of the western movie.; title: Selected bibliography (p. 138-146)