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LEADER: 02317cam a2200289 a 4500
001 00051708
003 DLC
005 20110917080241.0
008 001013s2001 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 00051708
020 $a0415924235
020 $a0415924243 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPN1995.9.W4$bW44 2001
082 00 $a791.43/6278$221
245 00 $aWesterns :$bfilms through history /$cedited by Janet Walker.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2001.
300 $aviii, 264 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aAFI film readers
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: part one. historical metafiction: 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. -- Part two. 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 -- Part three. 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 -- Part four. History through narrative -- 10. Captive images in the traumatic western: The searchers, Pursued, Once upon a time in the west, and Lone star / Janet Walker.
650 0 $aWestern films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aWalker, Janet,$d1955-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00051708.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/00051708-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/00051708-b.html