Wild West Movies

Full title: Wild West Movies

Author: Kim Newman
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Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0747507473
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publication date: 1990
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From his acclaimed study of horror films, "Nightmare Movies", Kim Newman turns his attention to the western. Against the backdrop of American history, popular mythology and the development of the cinema, the book examines the main themes and tensions of the genre. With reference to thousands of films and hundreds of directors and actors Newman brings his entertaining, wide-ranging and authoritative approach to bear on one of the cinema's most popular genres - with illuminating results.

About the author

Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer. Primarily focusing on Horror he has published a number of books on genre cinema including Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film 1968-88, BFI Companion to Horror and Millenium Movies: End of the World Cinema.