
A Guide to Silent Westerns
Larry Langman(Author)
Greenwood Press
Published on 20. October 1992
Book
Hardback
616 pages
978-0-313-27858-7 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. Numerous one-, two- and three-reelers are included in this guide. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct.
The term western is hard to define; someone once commented that a western had to have a horse in it. The genre generally applies to that post-Civil War period beginning with the great cattle drives and ending around 1890. But the author has included tales about early California, Mexico, various Indian tribes along the Eastern seaboard, the building of the railroad, the gold rush of 1849 and the search for gold in the Yukon. Other films which seem to have less in common with the genre, such as northern westerns, are listed in a separate appendix.
The term western is hard to define; someone once commented that a western had to have a horse in it. The genre generally applies to that post-Civil War period beginning with the great cattle drives and ending around 1890. But the author has included tales about early California, Mexico, various Indian tribes along the Eastern seaboard, the building of the railroad, the gold rush of 1849 and the search for gold in the Yukon. Other films which seem to have less in common with the genre, such as northern westerns, are listed in a separate appendix.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1147 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-27858-7 (9780313278587)
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Person
LARRY LANGMAN is a film historian and writer, who has published extensively.
Content
Preface Introduction Distributors Abbreviations A Guide to Silent Westerns Bibliography Appendix A: Serials Included in the Guide Appendix B: Northwestern Feature Films Appendix C: Series and Their Stars Appendix D: Silent Western Epics Index