The western genre : from Lordsburg to Big Whiskey / John Saunders. by Saunders, John, 1940-

How Hollywood Does It - Film History & Techniques of Genre / TMW Media Group.

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Film genre : Hollywood and beyond / Barry Langford. by Langford, Barry

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Action and adventure cinema / edited by Yvonne Tasker.

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The Dilys Powell film reader / edited by Christopher Cook. by Powell, Dilys

Table of Contents: “…. -- The French -- Criticism - a certain tone of voice -- Acting and Starring -- Genre I: The Western -- Genre II: Musicals, Bibles, Swords and Sandals; the Biopic; and the Horror Movie -- Faithful to the Book...Faithful to the Facts -- 'Cornerstones' -- The Darker Side -- Offscreen.…”

McCarthy and the Coens. by Vicaka, Inese

Table of Contents: “…HISTORY AND CONVENTIONS OF THE WESTERN GENRE; 6.1 Iconographic elements of the western; 6.2 Gender roles in the western genre; 7. …”
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American skeptic : Robert Altman's genre-commentary films / by Norman Kagan. by Kagan, Norman, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword : the man with no genre / Raymond Durgnat -- Generalized genre theory : an introduction -- Sci fi/horror genre : Countdown (1968) -- Love/eroticism genre : That cold day in the park (1969) -- War genre : M*A*S*H (1970) -- Fantasy genre : Brewster McCloud (1970) -- Western genre : McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1972) -- Madness genre : Images (1972) -- Detective genre : The long goodbye (1973) -- Outlaw/outcast/gangster genre : Thieves like us (1974) - - Success/contest genre : California split (1974) -- Show business genre : Nashville (1975).…”

The films of Sergio Leone / Robert C. Cumbow. by Cumbow, Robert C., 1946-

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Film genre reader / edited by Barry Keith Grant.

Table of Contents: “…Genre / Andrew Tudor -- The idea of genre in the American cinema / Edward Buscombe -- A semantic-syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman -- Genre films and the status quo / Judith Hess Wright -- Social implications in the Hollywood genres / Jean-Loup Bourget -- Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood -- Cinema;Ideology;Criticism revisited : the progressive genre / Barbara Klinger -- The structural influence : new directions in film genres study / Thomas Schatz -- Genre film : a classical experience / Thomas Sobchack -- Experience and meaning in genre films / Barry Keith Grant -- Genre and performance : an overview / Richard de Cordova -- The western (genre and movies) / Douglas Pye -- Apes and essences : some sources of significance in the American gangster film / Edward Mitchell -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader -- Chinatown and generic transformation in recent American films / John G. …”

The Pocket Essential Spaghetti Westerns / Howard Hughes. by Hughes, Howard, 1971-

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Western Film Series of the Sound Era.

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The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema. by Varner, Paul

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Love in western film and television : lonely hearts and happy trails / edited by Sue Matheson.

Film genre reader II / edited by Barry Keith Grant.

Table of Contents: “…Genre / Andrew Tudor -- The idea of genre in the American cinema / Edward Buscombe -- A semantic-syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman -- Genre films and the status quo / Judith Hess Wright -- Social implications in the Hollywood genres / Jean-Loup Bourget -- Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood -- Cinema; Ideology; Criticism revisited : the progressive genre / Barbara Klinger -- The structural influence : new directions in film genre study / Thomas Schatz -- Genre film : a classical experience / Thomas Sobchack -- Experience and meaning in genre films / Barry Keith Grant -- Genre and performance : an overview / Richard de Cordova -- Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams -- Questions of genre / Steve Neale -- The western (genre and movies) / Douglas Pye -- Apes and essences : some sources of significance in the American gangster film / Edward Mitchell -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader -- Chinatown and generic transformation in recent American films / John G. …”

Film genre reader III / edited by Barry Keith Grant.

Table of Contents: “…Genre / Andrew Tudor -- The idea of genre in the American cinema / Edward Buscombe -- A semantic-syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman -- Genre films and the status quo / Judith Hess Wright -- Social implications in the Hollywood genres / Jean-Loup Bourget -- Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood -- Cinema; Ideology; Criticism revisited : the progressive genre / Barbara Klinger -- The structural influence : new directions in film genre study / Thomas Schatz -- Genre film : a classical experience / Thomas Sobchack -- Experience and meaning in genre films / Barry Keith Grant -- Genre and performance : an overview / Richard de Cordova -- Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams -- Questions of genre / Steve Neale -- Hybrid or inbred : the purity hypothesis and Hollywood genre history / Janet Staiger -- The western (genre and movies) / Douglas Pye -- Apes and essences : some sources of significance in the American gangster film / Edward Mitchell -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader -- Chinatown and generic transformation in recent American films / John G. …”

John Ford's stagecoach / edited by Barry Keith Grant.

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Dream West : politics and religion in cowboy movies / Douglas Brode. by Brode, Douglas, 1943-

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The Hollywood Jim Crow : the racial politics of the movie industry / Maryann Erigha. by Erigha, Maryann

Dream West : politics and religion in cowboy movies / Douglas Brode. by Brode, Douglas, 1943-

Public cowboy no. 1 : the life and times of Gene Autry / Holly George-Warren. by George-Warren, Holly

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