Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on
the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they
were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers
tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's
Davy Crockett. Though the cultural revolution of the later 1960s
contributed to the demise of traditional Western programs, the
Western never actually disappeared from TV. Instead, it took on new
forms, such as the highly popular Lonesome Dove and Deadwood, while
exploring the lives of characters who never before had a starring
role, including anti-heroes, mountain men, farmers, Native and
African Americans, Latinos, and women.
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen is a comprehensive
encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or
played a recurring character role in a TV Western series or a
made-for-TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to
2008. Douglas Brode covers the highlights of each actor's career,
including Western movie work, if significant, to give a full sense
of the actor's screen persona(s). Within the entries are
discussions of scores of popular Western TV shows that explore how
these programs both reflected and impacted the social world in
which they aired. Brode opens the encyclopedia with a fascinating
history of the TV Western that traces its roots in B Western
movies, while also showing how TV Westerns developed their own
unique storytelling conventions.
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