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Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns

Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns

Hughes, Howard

Paperback

Film StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 1845115716
ISBN13: 9781845115715
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.82 Depth: 9.47
Language: English

This is the true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them...Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's Stagecoach to the revisionary Tombstone. Writing with panache and fresh insight, he explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. He shows how through reinvention and resurrection, this genre continually postpones the big adios and avoids ending up in Boot Hill...permanently. Major films covered include the best from genre giants John Ford, Howard Hawks and John Wayne, plus classics High Noon, Shane, The Magnificent Seven and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Stagecoach to Tombstone makes many more stops along the way, examining well-known blockbusters and lowly B-movie oaters alike. It examines comedy westerns, adventures 'south of the border', singing cowboys and the varied depiction of Native Americans on screen.

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