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The American West on film: myth and reality, [compiled by] Richard A. Maynard

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The American West on film: myth and reality, [compiled by] Richard A. Maynard

Language

eng

Bibliography note

"Filmography": pages 125-130

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illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The American West on film: myth and reality

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographies

Oclc number

948002

Responsibility statement

[compiled by] Richard A. Maynard

Series statement

His Hayden film attitudes and issues series

Summary

Compares the reality of Western history with its Hollywood treatment in movies

Table Of Contents

Introduction: The cowboy's West, an American dream? -- Pt. 1: The West as fact -- from the letters of Ed Donnell, a Nebraska homesteader -- Diary of George C. Duffield, a cattle drover -- from Giants in the Earth / O. E. Rölvaag -- The Lane county bachelor (popular song, 1890) -- The gunfighter legend / Joseph G. Rosa -- from the Negro cowboys / Philip C. Durham and Everett L. Jones -- The problem of Indian leadership / Vine DeLoria, Jr. -- Pt. 2: The West as fiction--The literary myth -- The Western hero in the dime novel / Henry Nash Smith -- Roosevelt, Remington, Wister: consensus and the West / G. Edward White -- The West as fiction / Philip C. Durham and Everett L. Jones -- Pt. 3: The West as fiction--The motion picture myth -- from the Western: from silents to cinerama / George N. Fenin and William K. Everson -- Ten commandments of the cowboy -- Movie chronicle: the Westerner / Robert Warshow -- John Ford / Peter Bogdanovich -- Billy the kid / Ralph A. Lynd -- Honesty or hokum--which does the public want? / Elena Boland -- Vivid action-movie at the Paramount / Kate Cameron -- Only as bad as they're painted / John del Valle -- Geronimo, studio advertisement -- Geronimo, educational promotion -- Two views of heroism -- Pt. 4: The rise of the cowboy anti-hero--trends in Westerns since 1960 -- Cowboys, movies, myths, and Cadillacs: realism in the Western / Larry McMurtry -- Saddle sore / Pauline Kael -- The revisionist Western -- Violence and beauty mesh in "Wild bunch" / Vincent Canby -- Wasn't that just lovely, the way his head exploded? / William Wolf -- A scene from "Doc," / Pete Hamill -- from Indians / Arthur Kopit

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