The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half CenturyThe Invention of the Western Film ranges across literature, visual arts, social history, ideology, and legend to provide, for the first time, an in-depth exploration of the early Western, from short kinetoscopes of the 1890s through "classic" features of the 1940s. By examining the American Indian's rise and demise during the silent era, B- Westerns of the 1930s, and film noir-influenced Westerns of the 1940s, Scott Simmon's pioneering study silhouettes the genre's evolution against a myriad of cultural forces. This lively, encyclopedic book revitalizes familiar Western icons John Wayne and John Ford, and recovers forgotten masterworks from the Western film's formative years. |
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... Western and the West ix . xi PART ONE . " MY FRIEND , THE INDIAN " : LANDSCAPE AND THE EXTERMINATION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN IN THE SILENT WESTERN 1. Indians to the Rescue 2. The Eastern Western 3. Our Friends , the Indians 3 6 12 19 4 ...
... Western and the West ix . xi PART ONE . " MY FRIEND , THE INDIAN " : LANDSCAPE AND THE EXTERMINATION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN IN THE SILENT WESTERN 1. Indians to the Rescue 2. The Eastern Western 3. Our Friends , the Indians 3 6 12 19 4 ...
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... West I am genuine white . . . and I am willing to own that my people have many ways , of which , as an honest man , I can't approve . It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen ... Western and the West.
... West I am genuine white . . . and I am willing to own that my people have many ways , of which , as an honest man , I can't approve . It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen ... Western and the West.
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... West show.3 Sitting Bull's horse and " Death Cabin " reappear in history three years later , on display in Buffalo Bill's new show , which was set up just outside the grounds of Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition ... Western and the West.
... West show.3 Sitting Bull's horse and " Death Cabin " reappear in history three years later , on display in Buffalo Bill's new show , which was set up just outside the grounds of Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition ... Western and the West.
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... West and the Western . There are a number of ways to write about the relationship between the Western film and the West , each full of compromises , and it's worth quickly laying out the options and the choices upon which I've settled ...
... West and the Western . There are a number of ways to write about the relationship between the Western film and the West , each full of compromises , and it's worth quickly laying out the options and the choices upon which I've settled ...
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... - peatedly told about the West , taking them up in the order they found prominence in Western history : the " encounter " in Part One , overland pioneering in Part Two , and the creation of community xiv Preface : The Western and the West.
... - peatedly told about the West , taking them up in the order they found prominence in Western history : the " encounter " in Part One , overland pioneering in Part Two , and the creation of community xiv Preface : The Western and the West.
Contents
Indians to the Rescue | 6 |
The Eastern Western | 12 |
Our Friends the Indians | 19 |
The Death of the Western 1911 | 32 |
The FarWestern | 36 |
Wars on the Plains | 44 |
The Politics of Landscape | 51 |
Pocahontas Meets Custer The Invaders | 55 |
Rambling into Surrealism The BWestern | 150 |
Dont Cry Pat Its Only a Western A Note on Acting | 171 |
Time Space and the Western | 178 |
THAT SLEEP OF DEATH JOHN FORD AND THE DARKNESS OF THE CLASSIC WESTERN IN THE 1940S | 193 |
My Darling Clementine and the Fight with Film Noir | 197 |
Out of the Past | 209 |
Shakespeare? In Tombstone? | 219 |
Get Outta Town and Stay Out | 234 |
No Indians Wanted | 79 |
The West of the Mohicans | 89 |
Desert Places | 94 |
ITS TIME FOR YOUR HISTORY LESSON DEAR JOHN WAYNE AND THE PROBLEM OF HISTORY IN THE HOLLYWOOD WESTERN OF T... | 99 |
The Big Trail and the Weight of History | 105 |
Whats the Big Idea? | 114 |
Philosophies of the Land | 115 |
Philosophies of Faith | 124 |
Philosophies of Politics | 130 |
Manifestations of Destiny | 138 |
A Lot of Nice People around Here | 243 |
Who Do We Shoot? | 256 |
The Revenge of Film Noir | 266 |
25 The Return of the Earps | 273 |
Ford Fonda and the Death of the Classic Western | 281 |
Notes | 295 |
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