Back in the Saddle Again
New Essays on the Western
Published on 1. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-85170-661-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays, commissioned for the book, covers aspects of the Western genre such as the early silent western, the western in German cinema, the television westerns of the 1950s, and the singing cowboys of the 1930s. It examines the topic of Native Americans and looks beyond America to examine the European western and to consider the significance of Mexico. The work also looks at the role of westerns in magazine advertising and in fashion, and the spate of TV documentaries on western topics.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
colour illustrations, filmography, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 0 mm
Weight
369 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85170-661-0 (9780851706610)
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Persons
Edward Buscombe is the editor of the BFI Companion to the Western (Andre Deutsch) and the author of Stagecoach in the BFI Film Classics series. Roberta Pearson is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University of Wales, and is currently writing a book entitled Custer's Last Scene: History, Memory, Identity.
Content
Vanishing Americans - racial and ethnic issues in the interpretation and context of post-war "pro-Indian" westerns, Steve Neale; photographing the Indian, Edward Buscombe; the professional western - south of the border, Noel Carroll; wider horizons, Doug Fairbanks and nostalgic primitivism, Gaylyn Studlar; "Our country" whose country? the "Americanization" project of early westerns, Eichard Abel; Dixie cowboys and blue yodels - the strange history of the singing cowboy, Peter Standield; "sixty million viewers can't be wrong" - the rise and fall of the television western, William Boddy; finding a new heimat in the Wild West - Karl May and the German western of the 1960s, Tassilo Schneider; John Ford and Monument Valley, Jean-Louis Leutrat and Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues; western motifs in magazine advertising, Colin McArthur; the fantasy of authenticity in western costume, Jane Marie Gaines and Charlotte Cornelia Herzog; the new western American historiography and the emergence of the new American westerns, Rik Worland and Edward Countryman; the twelve Custers or, video history, Roberta Pearson.