• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome

Paperback

Series: Reel West

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0826364616
ISBN13: 9780826364616
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: Mar 15 2023
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.39 Width: 4.72 Depth: 6.69
Language: English
Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in the Ranown cycle, is both the best and most representative of the whole series, which has been called the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking. Director Bud Boetticher captures the alienation and loneliness of an America faced with the Cold War and the daily threat of nuclear annihilation. Shot in seventeen days for under a half-million dollars, Ride Lonesome is a masterpiece of cinematic minimalism.

Veteran screenwriter Kirk Ellis brilliantly unpacks the themes, narrative, visual language, and editing in this seminal film. In Ride Lonesome Ellis not only shows how this one film embodies a turning point for the Western, but he also explores the unique vision and contributions of director Boetticher and his writing partner Burt Kennedy.

2 different editions

Also available

Also from

Ellis, Kirk

Also in

Film Studies