100 Westerns

Informationen zum Autor EDWARD BUSCOMBE is the editor of The BFI Companion to Western and has written on Stagecoach, The Searchers and The Unforgiven in the BFI Film Classics series. His most recent book is Cinema Today, published by Phaidon. Klappentext Addresses the perennial appeal of the Western! exploring its 19th century popular culture! and its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. This work considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles! from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s. Zusammenfassung Addresses the perennial appeal of the Western! exploring its 19th century popular culture! and its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. This work considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles! from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Buscombe, Buscombe Edward, Na Na
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2006
• EAN: 9781844571116
• ISBN: 978-1-84457-111-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Screen Guides; BFI Screen Guides (Hardcover); Screen Guides; BFI Screen Guides (Hardcover)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet