Westerns : films through history /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2001.
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| Series: | AFI film readers.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Historical metafiction: the 1990s western
- Generic subversion as counterhistory: Mario van Peeble's Posse / Alexandra Keller
- A tale N/nobody can tell: the return of a repressed western history in Jim Jarmusch's Dead man / Melinda Szaloky
- 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
- Cowboy wonderland, history and myth: "It ain't all that different than real life" / William G. Simon, Louise Spence
- Life-like, vivid, and thrilling pictures: Buffalo Bill's wild west and early cinema / Joy S. Kasson
- Buffalo Bill (himself): history and memory in the western biopic / Corey K. Creekmur
- Pt. 3. Film history: widening horizons
- How the west was sung / Kathryn Kalinak
- Drums along the L.A. river: scoring the Indian / Claudia Gorbman
- 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
- Captive images in the traumatic western: The searchers, Pursued, Once upon a time in the west, and Lone star / Janet Walker.