• Biographies (7) • Autobiographies (1) • Encyclopedias (9) • Dictionaries (7) • Essays (10) • Films Reviews (2) • Studies (90) • Interviews (4) • Stories (13) • Photos (2) • Didactic (2)
• Biographies (2) • Autobiographies (0) • Encyclopedias (0) • Dictionaries (0) • Essays (2) • Films Reviews (0) • Studies (21) • Interviews (0) • Stories (0) • Photos (1) • Didactic (1)
• Biographies (7 books)(2 books)
Citizen Cowboy (2024)
Will Rogers and the American People
by Steven Watts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Actor > Will Rogers
Will Rogers and His America (2023)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Subject: Actor > Will Rogers
Alan LeMay (2012)
A Biography of the Author of The Searchers
by Dan LeMay
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Others persons > Alan LeMay
Tom Mix (2011)
A Heavily Illustrated Biography of the Western Star, With a Filmography
by Paul E. Mix
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Searching for John Ford (2011)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Autobiographies (1 book)(0 book)
My Rodeo Years (2009)
Memoir of a Bronc Rider's Path to Hollywood Fame
by Yakima Canutt and John Crawford
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Yakima Canutt
• Encyclopedias (9 books)(0 book)
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns (2016)
Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games
by Paul Green
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Western Movie References in American Literature (2012)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Spaghetti Westerns (2005)
the Good, the Bad and the Violent:A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961–1977
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (2000)
An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, Events, Indian Culture and Customs, Information Sources, Art and Films
by Thom Hatch
Publisher: McFarland & Co
B Western Actors Encyclopedia (1997)
Facts, Photos and Filmographies for More than 250 Familiar Faces
by Ted Holland
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Dictionaries (7 books)(0 book)
Western Film Series of the Sound Era (2017)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses (2009)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen (2009)
Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors 1946-present
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
“A” Western Filmmakers (2008)
A Biographical Dictionary of Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Composers, Actors and Actresses
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Strong, Silent Type (2003)
Over 100 Screen Cowboys, 1903–1930
by Buck Rainey
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Sweethearts of the Sage (1992)
Biographies and Filmographies of 258 Actresses Appearing in Western Movies
by Buck Rainey
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Essays (10 books)(2 books)
The Good, the Bad and the Ancient (2022)
Essays on the Greco-Roman Influence in Westerns
Dir. Sue Matheson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Transnationalism and Imperialism (2022)
Endurance of the Global Western Film
Dir. Hervé Mayer and David Roche
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Sociology
Cowboy Politics (2017)
Myths and Discourses in Popular Westerns from The Virginian to Unforgiven and Deadwood
Publisher: Lexington Books
A Fistful of Icons (2017)
Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American Western
Dir. Sue Matheson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth (2012)
The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Back in the Saddle (1998)
Essays on Western Film and Television Actors
Dir. Gary A. Yoggy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Reel Cowboy (1996)
Essays on the Myth in Movies and Literature
by Buck Rainey
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Films Reviews (2 books)(0 book)
• Studies (90 books)(21 books)
Hispanic Roots of the Hollywood Western (2024)
by Mimi Gladstein and Susana Lozano
Publisher: TCU Press
The Evolution of the Western (2024)
The American Frontier in Film and Television
by Martin Kich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Ride the High Country (2024)
by Robert Nott
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Subject: One Film > Ride the High Country
Our Country/Whose Country? (2024)
Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism
by Richard Abel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
French Westerns (2024)
On the Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Blood on the Moon (2023)
by Alan K. Rode
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Subject: One Film > Blood on the Moon
Black Rodeo (2023)
A History of the African American Western
by Mia Mask
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Hold It Real Still (2022)
Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Hollywood's Melodramatic Imagination (2021)
Film Noir, the Western and Other Genres from the 1920s to the 1950s
by Geoff Mayer
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > All Genres
The Landscapes of Western Movies (2020)
A History of Filming on Location, 1900–1970
by Jeremy Agnew
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western (2020)
Dir. Kendra Preston Leonard and Mariana Whitmer
Publisher: Routledge
The Western Films of Robert Mitchum (2020)
Hollywood's Cowboy Rebel
by Gene Freese
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Robert Mitchum
Heroes of the Borderlands (2019)
The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Professionals in Western Film and Fiction (2019)
The Portrayal of Doctors, Lawyers, Journalists, Clergymen and Others
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Contemporary Western (2019)
An American Genre Post-9/11
by John White
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The Making of Tombstone (2018)
Behind the Scenes of the Classic Modern Western
by John Farkis
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Films of Budd Boetticher (2018)
by Robert Nott
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Budd Boetticher
Eastern Westerns (2018)
Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood
by Stephen Teo
Publisher: Routledge
Becoming John Wayne (2018)
The Early Westerns of a Screen Icon, 1930–1939
by Larry Powell and Jonathan H. Amsbary
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > John Wayne
The Western in the Global South (2018)
Dir. Maryellen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi and Dayna Oscherwitz
Publisher: Routledge
Unbridling the Western Film Auteur (2017)
Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations
Dir. Emma Hamilton and Alistair Rolls
Publisher: Peter Lang
Circle the Wagons! (2017)
Attacks on Wagon Trains in History and Hollywood Films
by Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Films of Budd Boetticher (2017)
Dir. Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Budd Boetticher
The Quick, the Dead and the Revived (2016)
The Many Lives of the Western Film
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Cowboy Classics (2016)
The Roots of the American Western in the Epic Tradition
by Kirsten Day
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (2016)
Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation
Dir. Austin Fisher
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The New Western (2016)
Critical Essays on the Genre Since 9/11
Dir. Scott F. Stoddart
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes (2015)
The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Subject: Sociology
Still in the Saddle (2015)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
The Sagebrush Trail (2015)
Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Selling the Silver Bullet (2015)
The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing
by Avi Santo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Economics
The Creation of the Cowboy Hero (2014)
Fiction, Film and Fact
by Jeremy Agnew
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Myth of the Western (2014)
New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Doc Holliday in Film and Literature (2014)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Billy the Kid on Film, 1911–2012 (2013)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Hang 'Em High (2013)
Law and Disorder in Western Films and Literature
by Bob Herzberg
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Ned Kelly Films (2013)
A Cultural History of Kelly History
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: On Films > Characters
Native Recognition (2013)
Indigenous Cinema and the Western
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Sociology
The Rodeo And Hollywood (2013)
Rodeo Cowboys on Screen And Western Actors in the Arena
by Jim Ryan
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Old West in Fact and Film (2012)
History Versus Hollywood
by Jeremy Agnew
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Ride, Boldly Ride (2012)
The Evolution of the American Western
by Mary Lea Bandy and Kevin Stoehr
Publisher: University of California Press
Jesse James and the Movies (2011)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Brokeback Book (2011)
From Story to Cultural Phenomenon
Dir. William R. Handley
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Subject: One Film > Brokeback Mountain
Peckinpah's Tragic Westerns (2011)
A Critical Study
by John L. Simons and Robert Merrill
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Sam Peckinpah
The Philosophy of the Western (2010)
Dir. Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Westerns and the Trail of Tradition (2010)
A Year-by-Year History, 1929–1962
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Brokeback Mountain (2010)
by Gary Needham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: One Film > Brokeback Mountain
He Was Some Kind of a Man (2009)
Masculinities in the B Western
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
The American West (2009)
Competing Visions
by Karen R. Jones and John Wills
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
Hollywood's West (2008)
The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History
by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
The Psychology of the Western (2008)
How the American Psyche Plays Out on Screen
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Savages and Saints (2008)
The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns
by Bob Herzberg
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Films of Randolph Scott (2007)
by Robert Nott
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Randolph Scott
How the West Was Sung (2007)
Music in the Westerns of John Ford
Publisher: University of California Press
Horizons West (2007)
Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood
by Jim Kitses
Publisher: BFI Publishing
The American Western (2007)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Hollywood and the O.K. Corral (2006)
Portrayals of the Gunfight and Wyatt Earp
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Rifleman (2005)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: One Film > The Rifleman (TV Series)
Last of the Cowboy Heroes (2005)
The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy
by Robert Nott
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Audie Murphy
Westerns in a Changing America, 1955–2000 (2004)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Searchers (2004)
Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western
Dir. Arthur M. Eckstein and Peter R. Lehman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: One Film > The Searchers
The Invention of the Western Film (2004)
A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century
by Scott Simmon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Genre
Shooting Cowboys and Indians (2004)
Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Subject: Silent Cinema
Invisible Natives (2002)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Horse Opera (2002)
The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Westerns and American Culture, 1930–1955 (2001)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
John Ford Made Westerns (2001)
Filming the Legend in the Sound Era
Dir. Gaylyn Studlar and Matthew Bernstein
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Peckinpah - The Western Films (1999)
A Reconsideration
by Paul Seydor
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Director > Sam Peckinpah
Wanted Dead or Alive (1998)
The American West in Popular Culture
Dir. Richard Aquila
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Sixguns and Society (1977)
A Structural Study of the Western
by Will Wright
Publisher: University of California Press
• Interviews (4 books)(0 book)
The Westerners (2009)
Interviews with Actors, Directors, Writers and Producers
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Ladies of the Western (2009)
Interviews with 25 Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s [A Large Print Abridged Edition]
by Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Ladies of the Western (2006)
Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s
by Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Westerns Women (2004)
Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s
by Boyd Magers and Michael G. Fitzgerald
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Stories (13 books)(0 book)
Hell-Bent for Leather (2025)
Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western
by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush and Sara L. Spurgeon
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Twisting in Air (2024)
The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
The Cavalry Trilogy (2024)
Publisher: TwoDot
Subject: One Film > Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande
Cowboy Stuntman (2022)
From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen
by Dean Smith and Mike Cox
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Subject: Technique > Special effects
John Wayne Was Here (2021)
The Film Locations and Favorite Places of an American Icon
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Wild Bunch (2020)
Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: One Film > The Wild Bunch
High Noon (2018)
The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
The Making of The Magnificent Seven (2015)
Behind the Scenes of the Pivotal Western
by Brian Hannan
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: One Film > The Magnificent Seven
Did You Notice? (2014)
The Wristwatch, Upside Down Gun, Power Pole and Tire Tracks in Western Film Stills
by Don Creacy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Movie Mistakes
Fall Girl (2010)
My Life as a Western Stunt Double
by Martha Crawford-Cantarini and Chrystopher J. Spicer
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film (1998)
Hollywood's Famous Lawmen and Outlaws
by Buck Rainey
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Photos (2 books)(1 book)
Western Movie Photographs and Autographs (2011)
Collector's Price Guide
by Ken Owens
Publisher: Schiffer
• Didactic (2 books)(1 book)
Ride Lonesome (2023)
by Kirk Ellis
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Subject: One Film > Ride Lonesome
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