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Informationen zum Autor Don Graham is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas (1983); No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy (1989); Giant Country: Essays on Texas (1998); and Kings of Texas : The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire (2003). In 2003 Graham edited Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande , and in 2007, Literary Austin (TCU Press). Graham has lived in Austin since the late 1970s. Klappentext From the earliest days of film, Texas and its colorful history offered promising story lines comprised of heroes, images, lore, and legend that filmmakers could return to again and again. Offering an overview of Texas in the movies, this book presents commentary on the wretched films about the Lone Star State. Zusammenfassung From the earliest days of film! Texas and its colorful history offered promising story lines comprised of heroes! images! lore! and legend that filmmakers could return to again and again. Offering an overview of Texas in the movies! this book presents commentary on the wretched films about the Lone Star State.
