Westerns :  films through history / 
edited by Janet Walker. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2001. 
 - viii, 264 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - AFI film readers .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>PT. 1. HISTORICAL METAFICTON: THE 1990S WESTERN : 1. Generic subversion as counterhistory: Mario Van Peebles's Posse / Alexandra Keller -- 2. A tale N/nobody can tell: the return of a repressed western history in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man / Melinda Szaloky -- 3. The burden of history and John Sayles's Lone Star / Tomas F. Sandoval, Jr.  PT. 2. HISTORIOPHOTY: BUFFALO BILL, THE INDIANS, AND THE WESTERN BIOPIC : 4. Cowboy wonderland, history and myth: "it ain't all that different than real life" / William G. Simon and Louise Spence -- 5. Life-like, vivid, and thrilling pictures: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and early cinema / Joy S. Kasson -- 6. Buffalo Bill (himself): history and memory in the western biopic / Corey K. Creekmur.  PT. 3. FILM HISTORY: WIDENING HORIZONS : 7. How the west was sung / Kathryn Kalinak -- 8. Drums along the L.A. river: scoring the Indian / Claudia Gorbman -- 9. Beyond the western frontier: reappropriations of the "good badman" in France, the French colonies, and contemporary Algeria / Peter J. Bloom.  PT. 4. HISTORY THROUGH NARRATIVE : 10. Captive images in the traumatic western: The Searchers, Pursued, Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Lone Star / Janet Walker. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415924235 0415924243 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00051708 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Western films--History and criticism.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.W4  / W44 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/6278