Horizons West
Title | Horizons West PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Kitses |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 591 |
Release | 2019-07-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1838716270 |
When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded new edition is, like the original, written in a graceful, penetrating and absorbingly readable style. It provides definitive critical analysis of the six greatest film-makers of the Western genre: John Ford, Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood. And it offers illuminating accounts of such classic Westerns as The Searchers, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Once Upon a Time in the West, Shane and many more. Among the completely new material in this edition is Kitses's magisterial account of the work of the greatest of Western directors, John Ford. Kitses also assesses how the Western has been challenged by revisionist historical accounts of the West and the Western, and by movement such as feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism and psychoanalysis. The product of a lifetime's labour and love, Horizons West is a landmark of scholarship and interpretation devoted to, what is for many, Hollywood's signature genre. It provides a compelling account of the powerful mythology of America's past as forged by Western films and the men who made them.
Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood
Title | Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Kitses |
Publisher | British Film Institute |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 2007-09-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781844570508 |
When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded new edition is, like the original, written in a graceful, penetrating and absorbingly readable style.
East and West
Title | East and West PDF eBook |
Author | Kwang-Sae Lee |
Publisher | Homa & Sekey Books |
Total Pages | 542 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1931907269 |
Seeks themes of mutual resonance in eastern and western thought, covering a range of selected topics with contemporary relevance. The main themes are 'methodological issues', comparison of Kantian and Confucian moral philosophy, and holistic individualism and pluralism, exemplified by Pragmatism, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Confucianism, and more.
Post-Westerns
Title | Post-Westerns PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Campbell |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 455 |
Release | 2020-04-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1496209621 |
During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet this frame is far from empty, as Post-Westerns shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films--including Bad Day at Black Rock, The Misfits, Lone Star, Easy Rider, Gas Food Lodging, Down in the Valley, and No Country for Old Men--reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself. Campbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact "ghost-Westerns," haunted by the earlier form's devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.
Making Meaning
Title | Making Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | David Bordwell |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1991-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780674543362 |
With this book, the author provides a history of film criticism and an analysis of how critics interpret film as well as a proposal for an alternative programme of film studies.
ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves
Title | ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves PDF eBook |
Author | Carter Matthew Carter |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2016-05-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474403026 |
From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers have been as critically overlooked in existing scholarly literature. Often regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-War Hollywood, films such as Broken Arrow (1950) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957) reveal a filmmaker concerned with style as much as sociocultural significance. As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naive studio man.
The Films of Budd Boetticher
Title | The Films of Budd Boetticher PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Nott |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2018-09-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1476667071 |
Budd Boetticher (1916-2001) was a bullfighter, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman filmmaker who could--with the right material and drive--create a minor Western film classic as easily as he could kill a bull. Yet pain and passion naturally mixed in both endeavors. Drawing on studio archives and featuring insightful interviews with Boetticher and those who worked with him, this retrospective looks at each of his 33 films in detail, covering his cinematic career from his days as an assistant's assistant on the set of Hal Roach comedies to his last documentary some 45 years later.