From the very beginnings of cinema in America the Western has been
a central genre. The hazardous lives of the settlers, their
conflict with Native Americans ('the Indians'), the lawless
frontier towns, outlaws and cattle rustlers, all found their way
into the new medium of film. Folk heroes and heroines, such as
Jesse and Frank James, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Calamity Jane
and Annie Oakley, were all eagerly seized on by filmmakers.
Writers, from the very popular to the very literary, from Zane Grey
to Owen Wister and James Fennimore Cooper, were plundered for
storylines. The Western became popular worldwide too because it
offered escape, adventure, stunning landscapes and romance; also
themes that concerned people everywhere including survival, law and
order, defence of family, and dreams of a new and better world.
David Carter's book, The Western, starts with an introduction to
the real American West and its famous historical figures, and
traces the development of the genre from popular literature,
through the early silent films, the sound era, the Golden Age of
classic Westerns, TV and 'spaghetti westerns', to the
self-reflexive and revisionist Westerns of recent decades. This
book provides a basic work of reference for all the major directors
and noteworthy films of the genre. The great Hollywood directors
are all here, such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Michael
Curtiz, Sam Peckinpah and Henry Hathaway, and great stars including
John Wayne, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane
Russell and Clint Eastwood.
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