Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 274 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857717014
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0857730460
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1441605746
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1845114981
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1845115716
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9780857717016
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9780857730466
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9781845114985
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9781441605740
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9781845115715
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9780755696369
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9780857717016
Content:
'The tumbril awaits' : Stagecoach (1939) -- 'Shakespeare in tombstone' : My darling Clementine (1946) -- 'Your heart's soft-- too soft' : Red River (1948) -- 'Tomorrow's all I need' : She wore a yellow ribbon (1949) -- 'What will I do if you leave me?' : High noon (1952) -- 'You can't break the mould' : Shane (1953) -- 'I never shake hands with a left-handed draw' : Johnny guitar (1954) -- 'We'll fool Saint Peter yet' : Vera Cruz (1954) -- 'I came a thousand miles to kill you' : The man from Laramie (1955) -- 'That'll be the day' : The searchers (1956) -- 'There's a hundred more tombstones' : Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) -- 'I bet that rattler died' : Forty guns (1957) -- 'There's some things a man just can't ride around' : Ride lonesome (1959) -- 'I'd hate to have to live on the difference' : Rio Bravo (1959) -- 'We deal in lead, friend' : The magnificent seven (1960) -- 'I seen the other side of your face' : One-eyed jacks (1961) -- 'All I want is to enter my house justified' : Ride the high country (1962) -- 'Ain't you got no respect for your Elders?' : The sons of Katie Elder (1965) -- 'The end of the line' : Once upon a time in the west (1968) -- 'The fastest finger in the west' : Support your local sheriff! (1969) -- 'This time we do it right' : The wild bunch (1969) -- 'Who are those guys?' : Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) -- 'I got poetry in me' : McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) -- 'Here in this land, man must have power' : Ulzana's raid (1972) -- 'Whooped 'em again, Josey' : The outlaw Josey Wales (1976) -- 'I've always been lucky when it comes to killing folks' : Unforgiven (1992) -- 'I'm your huckleberry' : Tombstone (1993).
Content:
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. Hughes also engagingly charts the genre's timely renovation by Sam Peckinpah ('Ride the High Country' and 'The Wild Bunch'), Sergio Leone ('Once Upon a Time in the West') and Clint Eastwood ('The Outlaw Josey Wales' and 'Unforgiven').Presented too are the best of western trivia, a filmography of essential films - and ten aficionados and critics, including Alex Cox, Christopher Frayling, Philip French and Ed Buscombe, give their verdict on the best in the west
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261), index and filmography (p. 249-255)
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845114985
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845114981
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hughes, Howard Stagecoach to tombstone London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, ©2008 ISBN 9781845114985
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845114981
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755696369
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