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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: 721.210.4(73) TAY
Author: Taylor, Charles
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: 199 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject: VANISHING POINT (UK, Richard C. Sarafian, 1971); HICKEY AND BOGGS (US, Robert Culp, 1972); TWO LANE BLACKTOP (US, Monte Hellman, 1971); COFFY (US, Jack Hill, 1973); FOXX, JAMIE; ULZANA'S RAID (US, Robert Aldrich, 1972); AMERICAN HOT WAX (US, Floyd Mutrux, 1978); HARD TIMES (US, Walter Hill, 1975); CITIZEN'S BAND (US, Jonathan Demme, 1977); WINTER KILLS (US, Bill Richert, 1979); EYES OF LAURA MARS (US, Irvin Kershner, 1978); BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (MX/US, Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
Summary: When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and The Wild Bunch . . . but the riches found in the overlooked B movies of the time, rolled out wherever they might find an audience, unexpectedly tell an eye-opening story about post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America. Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury many of us have forgotten, movies that in fact "unlock the secrets of the times." Celebrated film critic Taylor pays homage to the trucker vigilantes, meat magnate pimps, blaxploitation "angel avengers," and taciturn factory workers of grungy, unartful B films such as Prime Cut, Foxy Brown, and Eyes of Laura Mars. He creates a compelling argument for what matters in moviemaking and brings a pivotal American era vividly to life in all its gritty, melancholy complexity." - Book jacket
ISBN: 9781632868183
Contents: Prevues of coming attractions -- On the hoof, on the barrel: Prime Cut -- The challenger: Vanishing Point -- Farewell to the first golden era: Cisco Pike -- Bebop/ silence: Hickey & Boggs -- Shut down, volume 2: Two-land Blacktop -- A queen without a throne: Coffy and Foxy Brown -- White man's burden: Ulzana's Raid -- Aloha and good night, two by Floyd Mutrux: Aloha, Bobby and Rose and American Hot Wax -- Stranger in town: Hard Times -- E pluribus loonum: Citizens Band -- The goosing of the President: Winter Kills -- Eye of the beholders: Eyes of Laura Mars -- Even the losers: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia -- When the lights go up
ID2: 343

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ULZANA'S RAID (US, Robert Aldrich, 1972)