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100 Westerns (Bfi Screen Guides)
100 Westerns - Bfi Screen Guides
Author: Edward Buscombe
The Western is one of Hollywood cinema's most potent and enduring genres, bound up with America's understanding of itself as a frontier nation. Ed Buscombe provides an illuminating guide to a hundred key films of the genre, from Bad Day at Black Rock to The Wild Bunch, to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, A Fistful of D...  more », The Searchers and The Magnificent Seven. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, major credits, and a commentary on the film's significance and its production and exhibition history.

Ed Buscombe's introduction to the volume addresses the perennial appeal of the Western, exploring as an element of nineteenth century popular culture, and examining its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. He considers the defining features of the Western--the concept of the frontier and the key role of masculinity--and traces its main cycles, from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and its marked decline from the 1970s. He also discusses the contribution of major auteurs such as Ford, Mann, Peckinpah, Leone, and Eastwood.
ISBN-13: 9781844571123
ISBN-10: 1844571122
Publication Date: 8/8/2006
Pages: 264
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Publisher: British Film Institute
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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