
Horizons West
Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood
Jim Kitses(Author)
BFI Publishing
2nd Edition
Published on 7. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-84457-050-8 (ISBN)
Description
When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded new edition is, like the original, written in a graceful, penetrating and absorbingly readable style. It provides definitive critical analysis of the six greatest film-makers of the Western genre: John Ford, Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood. And it offers illuminating accounts of such classic Westerns as The Searchers, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Once Upon a Time in the West, Shane and many more.
Among the completely new material in this edition is Kitses's magisterial account of the work of the greatest of Western directors, John Ford. Kitses also assesses how the Western has been challenged by revisionist historical accounts of the West and the Western, and by movement such as feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism and psychoanalysis.
The product of a lifetime's labour and love, Horizons West is a landmark of scholarship and interpretation devoted to, what is for many, Hollywood's signature genre. It provides a compelling account of the powerful mythology of America's past as forged by Western films and the men who made them.
Among the completely new material in this edition is Kitses's magisterial account of the work of the greatest of Western directors, John Ford. Kitses also assesses how the Western has been challenged by revisionist historical accounts of the West and the Western, and by movement such as feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism and psychoanalysis.
The product of a lifetime's labour and love, Horizons West is a landmark of scholarship and interpretation devoted to, what is for many, Hollywood's signature genre. It provides a compelling account of the powerful mythology of America's past as forged by Western films and the men who made them.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84457-050-8 (9781844570508)
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Jim Kitses
Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood
The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood
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Jim Kitses is Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author of Gun Crazy (BFI, 1996) and co-editor of The Western Reader (1998).
Content
Acknowledgments
1. Directing the Western: Practice and Theory.
2. John Ford: Founding Father
3. Anthony Mann: The Overreacher
4. Budd Boetticher: Rules of the Game
5. Sam Peckinpah: The Savage Eye
6. Sergio Leone: A Fistful of Westerns
7. Clint Eastwood: Tightrope Walker
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Index
1. Directing the Western: Practice and Theory.
2. John Ford: Founding Father
3. Anthony Mann: The Overreacher
4. Budd Boetticher: Rules of the Game
5. Sam Peckinpah: The Savage Eye
6. Sergio Leone: A Fistful of Westerns
7. Clint Eastwood: Tightrope Walker
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Index