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Title: The Hollywood West: Lives of Film Legends Who Shaped It by Richard W. Etulain, Glenda Riley ISBN: 1-55591-434-9 Publisher: Fulcrum Pub Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: What's Legend and What's Fact?
Comment: While this book looks at many prominent personalities in Hollywood who helped shape the Western movie, many of the authors have not done their homework. A few chapters like the ones on John Ford and John Wayne are written by authors who understand their subjects, but others are poorly researched. The chapter on "Native American actors" by Gretchen M. Bataille includes the Italian-American actor Iron Eyes Cody (aka Oscar DiCorte). His identity was revealed in 1996 and later in major newspapers and magazines when he died in 1999. His Italian heritage from Louisiana is very well known by now. Bataille should keep up with the scholarship in her field. Chapters like hers give this book very little credibility.
Rating: 5
Summary: The real individuals behind the silver screen
Comment: In The Hollywood West: Lives Of Film Legends Who Shaped It, Richard Etulain and Blenda Riley have collaboratively assembled informative commentaries by eleven historians which dramatize the past century of "Hollywood Westerns" to reveal the real individuals behind the Western's greatest film heroes and heroines. Ranging from the Bronco Billy Anderson, William S. hart, and Tom Mix silent Westerns of heroic men on horseback with six-guns in their hands, to Gene Autry and Roy Rogers (the singing cowboys of the 1930s), to John Wayne and Gary Cooper style larger-than-life Western heroes of the 1940s, to female Western movie role models Barbara Stanwyck and Katy Jurado, and the Native American actors Jay Silverheels, Iron Eyes Cody, and Chief Dan George, The Hollywood West magnificently showcases some of the most influential characters and themes to have a lasting impact on American culture and popular imagination.
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Title: Those Great Cowboy Sidekicks by David Rothel ISBN: 0944019358 Publisher: Empire Publishing Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Round-Up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years by Donald R. Key ISBN: 0944019129 Publisher: Empire Publishing Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Invention of the Western Film : A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century by Scott Simmon ISBN: 0521555817 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy by Douglas B. Green ISBN: 082651412X Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr (T) Pub. Date: 11 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Cowboy: How Hollywood Invented the Wild West: Featuring the Real West, Campfire Melodies, Matinee Idols, Four Legged Friends, Cowgirls & Lone Guns by Holly George-Warren ISBN: 0762103752 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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