A Fistful of Icons: Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American Western
ISBN: 9780786498048 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States. And Western archetypes remain as important emblems of the American experience, relating a complex and coded narrative about heroism and morality, masculinity and femininity, westward expansion and technological progress, and assimilation and settlement. In this collection of new essays, 21 contributors from around the globe examine the "cowboy cool" iconography of film and television Westerns--from bounty hunters in buckskin...
After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the ...
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Cast a Giant Shadow: Hollywood Movie Great Ted White and the Evolution of American Movies and TV in the 20th Century
ISBN: 9780985135270 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his 50-year movie career Ted White has had roles alongside, and doubled, such stars as John Wayne, Clark Gable, James Garner, Rock Hudson and many others. In addition to playing Jason in "Friday the 13th: The final Chapter" he has played good guys and bad guys in dozens of films and TV shows. As movies and TV shows changed he schooled himself in the filmmaking arts and has become a valued second unit director, stunt coordinator and sought-after stuntman. His biography is filled with stories of famous leading men and women, some fun, some sad but always interesting and... In his 50-year movie career Ted White has had roles alongside, and doubled, such stars as John Wayne, Clark Gable, James Garner, Rock Hudson and ma... |
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121,47 zł |
The Films of Budd Boetticher
ISBN: 9781476667072 / Angielski / Miękka / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Budd Boetticher was a bullfighter, a bull talker, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman who could, with the right material and passion, make a minor Western film classic as easily as he could kill a bull. This is a film-by-film look at his cinematic career, from his days as an assistant's assistant on the set of Hal Roach comedies to his last documentary some 45 years later.
Budd Boetticher was a bullfighter, a bull talker, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman who could, with the right material and passion, make a m...
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249,43 zł |
Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre
ISBN: 9781496201966 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach ""post"" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily defied generic patterns, the Western continues to enthrall audiences.
Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach ""post"" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeare...
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235,21 zł |
Junior Bonner: The Making of a Classic with Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah in the Summer of 1971
ISBN: 9781629332895 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,72 zł |
Junior Bonner: The Making of a Classic with Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah in the Summer of 1971 (hardback)
ISBN: 9781629332901 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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170,40 zł |
The Hero and the Grave: The Theme of Death in the Films of John Ford, Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone
ISBN: 9781476664101 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theme of death is an essential component of film narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero. Focusing on Western and Japanese period genre films, the author examines the work of John Ford (1894-1973), Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) and Sergio Leone (1929-1989) and finds similarities regarding death's impact on the hero's sense of morality.
The theme of death is an essential component of film narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero. Focusing on Western and Japanese period genre...
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249,43 zł |
Trigger: The Lives and Legend of Roy Rogers' Palomino, 2d ed.
ISBN: 9781476671635 / Angielski / Miękka / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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249,43 zł |
The Making of Tombstone: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Modern Western
ISBN: 9781476675862 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the making of the film Tombstone as told to the author by those who were there. From actors, extras, crew members, Buckaroos, historians, and everyone in between, it details the inside story of how Tombstone was developed, created and filmed, on an almost day-by-day basis.
This is the story of the making of the film Tombstone as told to the author by those who were there. From actors, extras, crew members, Buckaroos, his...
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188,57 zł |
Cowboy Courage: Westerns and the Portrayal of Bravery
ISBN: 9781476676067 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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249,43 zł |
SIX-GUN LAW Volume 2: The Westerns of Rory Calhoun, Rod Cameron, Sterling Hayden and Richard Widmark
ISBN: 9781936168842 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,68 zł |
Professionals in Western Film and Fiction: The Portrayal of Doctors, Lawyers, Journalists, Clergymen and Others
ISBN: 9780786497294 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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249,43 zł |
The Western Films of Robert Mitchum: Hollywood's Cowboy Rebel
ISBN: 9781476678498 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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249,43 zł |
The Wild Bunch: The American Classic That Changed Westerns Forever
ISBN: 9781476677460 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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188,57 zł |
The Gunslingers of '69: Western Movies' Greatest Year
ISBN: 9781476679358 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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249,43 zł |
10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Italian Western
ISBN: 9780857303387 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,96 zł |
Reframing Cult Westerns: From the Magnificent Seven to the Hateful Eight
ISBN: 9781501343490 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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496,56 zł |
The Twenty-First-Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic Stage
ISBN: 9781793615114 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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495,18 zł |
Herstories on Screen: Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths
ISBN: 9780231189507 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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440,16 zł |
Herstories on Screen: Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths
ISBN: 9780231189514 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,55 zł |