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The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema (Paperback)
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The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema (Paperback)
Series: The A to Z Guide Series
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When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in
1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when
one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a
gun, seemingly, directly at the audience. The puff of smoke was
sudden and it was hand colored so that it looked real. Today, we
can look back at that primitive movie and see all the elements of
what would evolve into the Western genre. Perhaps it is the
Western's early origins The Great Train Robbery was the first
narrative, commercial movie or its formulaic yet entertaining
structure that has made the Western so popular. Whatever the case
may be, with the recent success of films like 3:10 to Yuma and The
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the Western
appears to be in no danger of disappearing. The story of the
western is told in The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema through a
chronology, a bibliography, and an introductory essay. However, it
is the hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on
cinematographers; composers; producers; films like Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid, Dances With Wolves, The Good, The Bad, and
the Ugly, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, The Searchers,
Tombstone, and Unforgiven; such actors as Gene Autry, Kirk Douglas,
Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and John Wayne; and
directors like John Ford and Sergio Leone that will have you
reaching for this book again and again."
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