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Call No: 736.1 BUS
Author: Buscombe, Edward
CorpAuthor: BFI
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 248 p. : 17 cm
Series: BFI Screen Guides
Subject: WESTERNS; NATIVE AMERICANS IN FILMS; GENRES; BUSCOMBE, EDWARD; ANTONIO DAS MORTES (BL, Glauber Rocha, 1969); BEGUILED, THE (US, Don Siegel, 1971); BIG SKY, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1952); BROKEN ARROW (US, Delmer Daves, 1950); BULLET FOR THE GENERAL, A (IT, Damiano Damiani, 1966); BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (US, George Roy Hill, 1969); CALAMITY JANE (US, David Butler, 1953); COWBOY (US, Delmer Davies, 1958); DANCES WITH WOLVES (US, Kevin Costner, 1990); DEAD MAN (US, Jim Jarmusch, 1995); DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (US, George Marshall, 1939); DODGE CITY (US, Michael Curtiz, 1939); DUEL IN THE SUN (US, King Vidor, 1946); PER UN PUGNO DI DOLLARI (IT/SP/GW, Sergio Leone, 1964); PER QUALCHE DOLLARO IN PIU (IT/SP/GW, Sergio Leone, 1965); FORT APACHE (US, John Ford, 1948); BUONO, IL BRUTTO, IL CATTIVO, IL (IT, Sergio Leone, 1966); GO WEST (US, Buster Keaton, 1925); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); GREY FOX, THE (CN, Philip Borsos, 1982); HANGING TREE, THE (US, Delmer Daves, 1958); HEAVEN'S GATE (US, Michael Cimino, 1980); HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952); HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (US, Clint Eastwood, 1973); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954); LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE (US, Michael Mann, 1992); LAST WAGON, THE (US, Delmer Daves, 1956); LITTLE BIG MAN (US, Arthur Penn, 1970); LONG RIDERS, THE (US, Walter Hill, 1980); MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE (UK, John Sturges, 1960); MAN FROM LARAMIE, THE (US, Anthony Mann, 1955); MAN OF THE WEST (US, Anthony Mann, 1958); MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, THE (US, John Ford, 1962); MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971); MISSOURI BREAKS, THE (US, Arthur Penn, 1976); MONTE WALSH (US, William A. Fraker, 1970); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946); C`ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST (IT/FR, Sergio Leone, 1968); ONE-EYED JACKS (US, Marlon Brando, 1961); OPEN RANGE (US, Kevin Costner, 2003); OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, THE (US, Clint Eastwood, 1976); PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1973); PURSUED (US, Raoul Walsh, 1947); RAMROD (US, Andre de Toth, 1947); RANCHO NOTORIOUS (US, Fritz Lang, 1952); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948); RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1962); RIO BRAVO (US, Howard Hawks, 1959); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953); SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (US, John Ford, 1949); SHOOTING, THE (US, Monte Hellman, 1966); SHOOTIST, THE (US, Donald Siegel, 1976); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF (US, Burt Kennedy, 1969); FA TALAI JONE (TH, Wisit Sasanatieng, 2000); TWO RODE TOGETHER (US, John Ford, 1961); ULZANA'S RAID (US, Robert Aldrich, 1972); UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992); VIVA MARIA (US, Louis Malle, 1965); WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969); DAVES, DELMER; WAYNE, JOHN; Stewart, James; EASTWOOD, CLINT; FORD, JOHN
Summary: The Western is one of Hollywood cinema’s most potent and enduring genres, bound up with America’s understanding of itself as a frontier nation. Edward Buscombe provides an illuminating guide to a hundred key films of the genre, from Broken Arrow to The Wild Bunch by way of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, A Fistful of Dollars, The Magnificent Seven and The Searchers. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, major credits, and a commentary on the film’s significance, together with its production and exhibition history. Edward Buscombe’s introduction to the volume discusses the criteria for selecting a mere hundred essential Westerns out of the thousands that have been made since the birth of cinema. He considers the relative weight to be attached to the acknowledged great directors of the genre, such as John Ford and Sam Peckinpah, and to lesser known but significant figures such as Delmer Daves. He takes stock of the contribution of the great Western stars, including John Wayne, James Stewart and Clint Eastwood. And he argues for a selection that takes into account Westerns of the silent era, B-Westerns and singing cowboys, and those Westerns made outside America. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 1844571122

Call No: 632.2 FEL
Author: Fell, John L. (John Lewis), 1927
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: xx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); MELIES, GEORGES
Notes: Previously published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. -- Includes appendices -- Bibliography: p. 258-271 -- Index: p. 273 -284 -- c1974
ISBN: 0520053680 (paper)
LON: abn90010427; 6864524
Contents: Introduction -- I. VERBAL ARTS : 1. Mise en scene -- 2. Dissolves by gaslight -- 3. It is not a good book, my son -- 4. Space, time, and Victorian prose -- II. GRAPHIC ARTS : 5. Mr. Griffith, meet Winsor McCay -- 6. The picture in our heads -- 7. Art, photography, and the shape of things to come -- III. THE MOVIES : 8. Ten cent palace life -- 9. A particular phase of perception -- APPENDICES : I. Early development of American sheet music -- II. Twenty representative British and American melodramas -- III. Subliterature in the Nineteenth Century -- IV. Lenses -- V. The phasmatrope -- VI. Nineteenth-century developments in printing -- VII. Winsor McCay -- VIII. Musical machines -- IX. Chronological listing in Niver In the Beginning Collection.

Call No: 736 TUS
Author: Tuska, Jon
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Garden City, N.Y.
Publisher: Doubleday
PubDate: 1976
PhysDes: xx, 588 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 27 cm
Subject: WESTERNS; AUTRY, GENE; HAWKS, HOWARD; FORD, JOHN; Peckinpah, Sam; WAYNE, JOHN; JONES, BUCK; PLAINSMAN, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1936); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); DUEL IN THE SUN (US, King Vidor, 1946); VIRGINIAN, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1929); PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1973); SQUAW MAN, THE (US, Oscar C. Apfel & Cecil B. DeMille, 1914); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); BATTLE OF ELDERBUSH GULCH, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1913); LAW AND ORDER (US, Edwin L. Cahn, 1932); BILLY THE KID (US, King Vidor, 1930); UNION PACIFIC (US, Cecil B. Demille, 1939)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0385031157 : $14.95
LON: 387748

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: FIRST GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (UK, Michael Crichton, 1979)

Call No: 701"00" HAS
Author: Haslem, Wendy
Edition: 2019
Place: Bristol
Publisher: Intellect
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: 191 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm
Subject: COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD; MELIES, GEORGES; BENJAMIN, WALTER; COLOUR; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; MULVEY, LAURA; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); TRIP TO THE MOON [VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE] (FR, George Melies, 1902)
Summary: From Méliès to New Media contributes to a dynamic stream of film history that is just beginning to understand that new media forms are not only indebted to but firmly embedded within the traditions and conventions of early film culture. Adopting a media archaeology, this book will present a comparative examination of cinema including early film experiments with light and contemporary music videos, silent film and their digital restorations, German Expressionist film and post-noir cinema, French Gothic film and the contemporary digital remake, Alfred Hitchcock’s films exhibited in the gallery, post medium films as abstracted light forms and interactive digital screens revising experiments in precinema. Media archaeology is an approach that uncovers the potential of intermedial research as a fluid form of history. It envisages the potential of new discoveries that foreground forgotten or marginalised contributions to history. It is also an approach that has been championed by influential new historicists like Thomas Elsaesser as providing the most vibrant and productive new histories (2014). -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781783209897
Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beginnings and Ends: Historical Collusion -- Chapter 1: Cigarette Burns and Bullet Holes: Celluloid Cues in Digital Cinema -- Section I: Early Cinema: Colour and Spectrality -- Chapter 2: Applied Colour: Chromatic Frankenstein's Monsters? -- Chapter 3: The Serpentine Dance Films: 'Dream Visions That Change Ten Thousand Times a Minute' -- Section II: Luminescence, Montage and Frame Ratios -- Chapter 4: Memory and Noir: Neon Contrasts -- Chapter 5: Cutting: Shock and Endurance -- Chapter 6: Screens, Scale Ratio: Vertical Celluloid in the Digital Age -- Section III: Cinema Beyond the Frame -- Chapter 7: Hallucinatory Framing and Kaleidoscopic Vision -- Chapter 8: Ephemeral Screens: The Muybridgizer -- Bibliography -- Index

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903)

Call No: 70 ROT
Author: Rotha, Paul
Place: London New York
Publisher: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, inc
PubDate: [1936]
PhysDes: ix,142 p. : illus. ; 30 cm
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FANTASTIC FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; MELODRAMA; MUSICALS; ROMANIES IN FILM; SATIRE IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); CHYORTOVO KOLESO (UR, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1926); [FOUR] HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); LOST PATROL, THE (US, John Ford, 1934); OUR HOSPITALITY (US, Buster Keaton & John Blystone, 1923); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); QUICK MILLIONS (US, Rowland Brown, 1931); SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); SPEEDY (US, Ted Wilde, 1928); TABU (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1931); TESTAMENT DES DOKTOR MABUSE, DAS (G, Fritz Lang, 1933); WINGS (US, William Wellman, 1927); WOMAN OF PARIS, A (US, Charles Chaplin, 1923)
Notes: Title on two leaves; "Pictorial survey ... some 600 stills ... from all parts of the world."--p. [iv]
LON: 1376838

Call No: 70"192" MUL
Author: Muller, Jurgen
Edition: 2007
Place: Koln
Publisher: Taschen GMBH
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: 482 pgaes : illustrated ; 26 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; TRIP TO THE MOON [VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE] (FR, George Melies, 1902); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913); CABIRIA (IT, Giovanni Pastrone, 1914); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); MADAME DUBARRY (G, Ernst Lubitsch, 1919); CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920); EROTIKON (SW, Mauritz Stiller, 1920); GOLEM, THE [; KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922); [FOUR] 4 HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Rex Ingram, 1921); THREE MUSKETEERS, THE (US, Fred Niblo, 1921); ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925); TOL'ABLE DAVID (US, Henry King, 1921); NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); HAXAN [WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES] (SW/DK, Benjamin Christensen, 1922); [DOCTOR] DR MABUSE: THE GAMBLER [DR. MABUSE DER SPIELER] (G, Fritz Lang, 1922); SAFETY LAST (US, Fred Newmayer/Sam Taylor, 1923); HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (US, Wallace Worsley, 1923); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1923); WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924); THIEF OF BAGDAD (US, Raoul Walsh, 1924); SHERLOCK, JR. (US, Buster Keaton, 1924); NIBELUNGEN, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1922-24); LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924); NAVIGATOR, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp, 1924); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); FREUDLOSE GASSE, DIE (G, Wilhelm Pabst, 1925); PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE (US, Rupert Julian, 1925); SON OF THE SHEIK, THE (US, George Fitzmaurice, 1926); LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); BLACK PIRATE, THE (US, Albert Parker, 1926); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); KONETS SANKT-PETERSBURGA (UR, Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1927); NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927); CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'ITALIE, UN (FR, Rene Clair, 1927); SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); CROWD, THE (US, King Vidor, 1928); WIND, THE (US, Victor Sjostrom, 1928); CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BUCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929); CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928); LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931); BLAUE ENGEL, DER (G, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (US, Lewis Milestone, 1930); SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1929); MOROCCO (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); WESTFRONT 1918 (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1930); AGE D'OR, L' (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1930)
Notes: From the invention of the moving picture to the first sound movies From the first moving pictures (the Lumiere brothers' 1895 L'arrive d'un train), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the first three decades of the moving picture around the world. In America, we witness the birth of Hollywood, circa 1910, where film quickly became a powerful industry and D. W. Griffith put American cinema on the map; later, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton developed a new language of visual comedy while eccentrics like Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille turned cinema into a high art form and show biz respectively, and sex symbols like Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo heated up the screens. Meanwhile, in Europe, German directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang were establishing their careers and Russian greats Eisenstein and Pudovkin were already revolutionizing a nascent art form. At the end of the 1920s the very first "talkies", albeit rudimentary ones, brutally crushed the silent art, but by 1930 sound masterpieces such as Sternberg's The Blue Angel and Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front were produced. This exploration of the founding years of cinema offers a fascinating perspective on a period in movie history that is far too often overlooked in our times. -- jacket blurb
ISBN: 9783822846131
Donation: Megan McMurchy