The Western, from silents to the seventies
By: [by] George N. Fenin and William K. Everson.
Contributors: Everson, William K., joint author.
Edition: A new and expanded ed.
Publisher: Grossman
Published: 1973
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Western films -- History and criticism.
Description: This revised and expanded edition contains new chapters on Italian and Japanese Westerns and on the American Westerns of the last decade. This illustrated history of the Western is the product of serious research into the truth of the West and its cinematic presentation. Here are all the stars and the heroes, outlaws, and heroines they portrayed; the themes of the Westerns; the directors; the fist- and gunfights; the Western landscapes; the Indian raids; the covered wagon treks; the rustlers; the sheriffs who pursued them.
Notes: Edition for 1962 published under title: The Western, from silents to cinerama.