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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: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924)

Call No: 81FOR SIN
Author: Sinclair, Andrew
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Allen and Unwin
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: xii, 305 p. [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: FORD, JOHN; IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (US, John Ford, 1929); UP THE RIVER (US, John Ford, 1930); PILGRIMAGE (US, John Ford, 1933); LOST PATROL, THE (US, John Ford, 1934); JUDGE PRIEST (US, John Ford, 1934); WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING, THE (US, John Ford, 1935); WEE WILLIE WINKIE (US, John Ford, 1937); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939); TOBACCO ROAD (US, John Ford, 1941); HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (US, John Ford, 1941); THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (US, John Ford, 1945); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946); FORT APACHE (US, John Ford, 1948); SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (US, John Ford, 1949); RIO GRANDE (US, John Ford, 1950); QUIET MAN, THE (US/IR, John Ford, 1952); MOGAMBO (US, John Ford, 1953); WINGS OF EAGLES, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); LAST HURRAH, THE (US, John Ford, 1958); HORSE SOLDIERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1959); MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, THE (US, John Ford, 1962); HOW THE WEST WAS WON (US, Henry Hathaway & John Ford & George Marshall, 1962); YOUNG CASSIDY (UK, Jack Cardiff, 1965); SEVEN WOMEN (US, John Ford, 1965)
Summary: Andrew Sinclair uses his access to the papers and photographs of John Ford, and to his work colleagues, ranging from actors to camera and stuntmen, to build a complete picture of the man. He shows John Ford to be a very successful director, from 1917, the period of silent movies, to 1966, a time when movies had become an important means of entertainment. He shows John Ford as a cantankerous, wily and brave man, who had a big influence on American cinema, and American social history, as a person who opposed McCarthyism, and who was wounded in the Second World War making documentary and propaganda films [Taken from the cover of the book]
Notes: Also published : New York : Dial Press, 1979; Includes index; Filmography: p.229- 291
ISBN: 0047910380

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

Call No: 81 FOR MAT
Author: Matheson, Sue
Source: US
Place: Lanham, Maryland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: c2016
PhysDes: xxi, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series: Film and history
Subject: FORD, JOHN; WESTERNS; WAR AND THE CINEMA; STRAIGHT SHOOTING (U.S, John Ford, 1917); [THREE] 3 BAD MEN (US, John Ford, 1926); [THREE] 3 GODFATHERS (US, John Ford, 1948); BATTLE OF MIDWAY, THE (US, John Ford, 1942); BUCKING BROADWAY (US, John Ford, 1917); CHEYENNE AUTUMN (US, John Ford, 1964); FORT APACHE (US, John Ford, 1948); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); HELL BENT (US, John Ford, 1918); HORSE SOLDIERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1959); INFORMER, THE (US, John Ford, 1935); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); LONG GRAY LINE, THE (US, John Ford, 1954); MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (US, John Ford, 1929); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); SEAS BENEATH (US, John Ford, 1931); SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (US, John Ford, 1960); SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (US, John Ford, 1949); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SUBMARINE PATROL (US, John Ford, 1938); THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (US, John Ford, 1945); THIS IS KOREA (US, John Ford, 1951); TWO RODE TOGETHER (US, John Ford, 1961)
Summary: "Responsible for some of the greatest films of the 20th century - The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man among others - John Ford was best known for motion pictures that defined the American West and the face of wartime military. A Hollywood celebrity, Ford lived his life against the background that Twentieth Century-Fox fashioned for him. As he did, the facts of his life merged with - and became inseparable from - his multifaceted legend, fostered by Hollywood's studio culture and his own imagination. In The Westerns and War Films of John Ford Sue Matheson offers an engaging look at one of America's greatest directors and the two genres of films that solidified his reputation. Drawing on previously unreleased material, this volume explores the man, the filmmaker, the veteran, and the legend - and the ways in which all of those roles shaped Ford's view of America, national character, and his creative output. Among the films discussed here in depth are Ford's early productions, such as The Iron Horse and Drums along the Mohawk, his military films, such as Submarine Patrol, The Battle of Midway, and They Were Expendable, and his Westerns, including Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and Cheyenne Autumn. Ford imbued many of his creations with a point of view that represented his ideals, and the films discussed here illustrate their director's distinct vision of American life on the frontier and in service of the country. That vision - Ford's idealization of the American Character - would, in turn, shape the worldview of several generations. The Westerns and War Films of John Ford will appeal to critics and scholars, but also to any fan of this iconic filmmaker's work. " - BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781442261051
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction -- A career man -- Early days in the Hollywood west: from Straight shooting to The iron horse -- The heroic West: from Three bad men to Drums along the Mohawk -- Not for self but for country: from Salute to Submarine patrol -- In the navy: The Battle of Midway -- War stories: They were expendable -- Critiquing combat culture: Fort Apache -- Keeping the faith: She wore a yellow ribbon -- The war at home: Rio Grande -- Veterans' affairs: The searchers -- A house divided: The horse soldiers -- The nature of one's service: Sergeant Rutledge -- Deconstructing the legend: The man who shot Liberty Valance -- Questions of just conduct: Cheyenne Autumn -- Aftermath.