Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood

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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.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844570508
ISBN-10: 1844570509
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:2nd ed. 2007
Editura: British Film Institute
Colecția British Film Institute
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.- Select Filmography.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

Notă biografică

JIM KITSES is Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University. He is the author ofGun Crazy(1994) and co-editor ofThe Western Reader(1998).

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When first published in 1969,Horizons Westwas immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors.

This greatly expanded new edition now 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 asThe Searchers,Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,Once Upon a Time in the West,Shaneand 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 movements such as feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, and psychoanalysis.

The product of a lifetime's labour and love,Horizons Westis a landmark of scholarship and interpretation devoted to, what it 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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