TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Janet
TI  - Westerns: films through history 
SN  - 0415924235
AV  - PN1995.9.W4 W44 2001
U1  - 791.43/6278 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Western films
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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