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The Rifleman

The Rifleman

Sharrett, Christopher

Paperback

Series: TV Milestones

Television

ISBN10: 0814330827
ISBN13: 9780814330821
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Nov 10 2005
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.36 Width: 4.89 Depth: 7.11
Language: English

The Rifleman is perhaps the most significant and intelligent of the TV westerns from the late 1950s--an era when the western was the dominant television genre. With its story of a single father raising a son in 1880s New Mexico, The Rifleman offered many alternatives to the conventions of the western. It also embodied many of the genre's contradictions, setting its ideas about domesticity and level-headedness alongside the gun violence adopted by westerns as central to the settling of the West and the creation of America. With its initial episodes written and directed by celebrated auteur Sam Peckinpah, and the overall series produced by veteran Dick Powell and the pioneering television production team of Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner, and Arnold Laven, The Rifleman is distinguished by its stewardship of some of the most talented minds of early television.

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