Westerns: Films through History

✍ Scribed by Walker, Janet (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: AFI Film Readers
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
acknowledgments
introduction: westerns through history
part one. historical metafiction: the 1990s western
1. generic subversion as counterhistory: mario van peebles's posse
2. a tale N/nobody can tell: the return of a repressed western history in jim jarmusch's dead man
3. the burden of history and john sayles's lone star
part two. historiophoty: buffalo bill, the indians, and the western biopic
4. cowboy wonderland, history and myth: "it ain't all that different than real life"
5. life-like, vivid, and thrilling pictures: buffalo bill's wild west and early cinema
6. buffalo bill (himself): history and memory in the western biopic
part three. film history: widening horizons
7. how the west was sung
8. drums along the l.a. river: scoring the indian
9. beyond the western frontier: reappropriations of the "good badman" in france, the french colonies, and contemporary algeria
part four. history through narrative
10. captive images in the traumatic western: the searchers, pursued, once upon a time in the west, and lone star
contributors
index