Westerns
Subtitle: the essential Journal of popular film and television collection
By: edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Michael T. Marsden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780415783231; 9780415783248
Subjects: Western films; History and criticism
Other titles: Journal of popular film and television.
Notes: Essays previously published in The journal of popular film and television, between 1972-2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The journal of popular film & television legacy of Western scholarship / Gary R. Edgerton and Michael T. Marsden; title: Silent Westerns. The earliest Western films: a checklist of pre-1900 prototype Western films in the  Library of Congress paper print collection / Daryl E. Jones; title: "The cross-heart people": race and inheritance in the silent Westerns / Joanna Hearne; title: "Arizona Jim": the Westerns of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. / John C. Tibbetts; title: Classic Westerns. Soldiers in Stetsons: B-Westerns go to war / R. Philip Loy; title: "Be sure you're right, then go ahead": the early Disney Westerns / J.G. O'Boyle; title: "Let's go home, Debbie": the matter of blood pollution, combat culture, and Cold War hysteria in The searchers (1956) / Sue Matheson; title: Race and Westerns. Playing at being Indian: spectatorship and the early Western / Alison Griffiths; title: A fate worse than death: racism, transgression, and Westerns / J.P. Telotte; title: A politically correct Ethan Edwards: Clint Eastwood's The outlaw Josey Wales (1976) / Robert Sickels; title: Gender and Westerns. Howard Hughes and his Western: The maverick and The outlaw (1943) / Thomas H. Pauly; title: Carrying concealed weapons: gendered makeover in Calamity Jane (1953) / Tamar Jeffers McDonald; title: Redesigning Pocahontas: Disney, the "White man's Indian", and the marketing of dreams / Gary Edgerton and Kathy Merlock Jackson; title: Revisionist Westerns. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971): Robert Altman's anti-Western / Gary Engle; title: Blending genres, bending time: Steampunk of the Western frontier / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper; title: Deadwood (2004-2006), generic transformation, and televisual history / Allison Perlman; title: Westerns in global context. Shouldering the weight of the world: the sensational and global appeal of John Wayne's body / Russell Meeuf; title: The man with no home/Musukja (1968): Shane comes back in a Korean "Manchurian Western" / Hye Seung Chung; title: Hollywood border cinema: Westerns with a vengeance / Camilla Fojas; title: The Western rides on: books about Western movies, 2005-2011 / Ray Merlock and Jack Nachbar.