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Still in the Saddle - The Hollywood Western, 1969–1980 (Paperback)
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By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph
Scott, and even John Wayne was passé - or so the story goes. Many
film historians and critics have argued that movies portraying a
mythic American West gave way to revisionist films that influential
filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah and Robert Altman made as violent
critiques of the Western's ""golden years."" Yet rumors surrounding
the death of the Western have been greatly exaggerated, says film
historian Andrew Patrick Nelson. Even as the Wild Bunch and John
McCabe rode forth, John Wayne remained the Western's number one box
office draw. How, then, could there have been a revisionist
reckoning at a time when the Duke was still in the saddle? In Still
in the Saddle, Nelson offers readers a new history of the Hollywood
Western in the 1970s, a time when filmmakers tried to revive the
genre by appealing to a diverse audience that included a new
generation of socially conscious viewers. Nelson considers a
comprehensive filmography of releases from 1969 to 1980 in light of
the visual tropes and narratives developed and reworked in the
genre from the 1930s to the present. In so doing, he reveals the
complexity of what is probably the most interesting period in
Western movie history. His incisive reevaluations of such
celebrated (or infamous) films as The Wild Bunch and Heaven's Gate
and examinations of dozens of forgotten and neglected Westerns,
including the final films of John Wayne, demonstrate that there was
more to the 1970s Western than simple revision. Instead, we see not
only important connections between canonical and lesser-known films
of the period, but also continuities between these and older
Westerns. Nelson believes an ongoing, cyclical process of
regeneration thus transcends established divisions in the genre's
history. Among the books currently challenging the prevailing
""evolutionary"" account of the Western, Still in the Saddle
thoroughly revises our understanding of this exciting and
misunderstood period in the Western's history and adds innovatively
and substantially to our knowledge of the genre as a whole.
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