Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoer's Guide to Great Westerns - Brossura

Hughes, Howard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1845115716 ISBN 13: 9781845115715

Casa editrice: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2015

Riassunto

This is the true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them...Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's "Stagecoach" to the revisionary "Tombstone". Writing with panache and fresh insight, he explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. He shows how through reinvention and resurrection, this genre continually postpones the big adios and avoids ending up in Boot Hill...permanently. Major films covered include the best from genre giants John Ford, Howard Hawks and John Wayne, plus classics "High Noon", "Shane", "The Magnificent Seven" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". "Stagecoach to Tombstone" makes many more stops along the way, examining well-known blockbusters and lowly B-movie oaters alike. It examines comedy westerns, adventures 'south of the border', singing cowboys and the varied depiction of Native Americans on screen.
Hughes also engagingly charts the genre's timely renovation by Sam Peckinpah ("Ride the High Country" and "The Wild Bunch" ), Sergio Leone ("Once Upon a Time in the West") and Clint Eastwood ("The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Unforgiven"). Presented too are the best of western trivia, a filmography of essential films - and ten aficionados and critics, including Alex Cox, Christopher Frayling, Philip French and Ed Buscombe, give their verdict on the best in the west.

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Recensione:

'Written with panache and fresh insight...buy it!' --Dave Worrall, Cinema Retro

'A deftly written collection of essays, full of fascinating insight, this will be a must for fellow travellers on the sagebrush trail' --Howard Maxford, Film Review

L'autore:

Howard Hughes is a UK-based film writer and researcher. He is the author of the I.B.Tauris 'Filmgoers' Guides' and 'Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood'.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1845115716
• ISBN 13: 9781845115715
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 274