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A Guide to Silent Westerns
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Larry Langman
Book Code: LSD/
ISBN: 0-313-27858-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27858-7
616 pages, filmography,
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/1992
List Price: $133.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts
Series Number: 13
Reviews:
  • Recommended for libraries with strong film collections, serving serious students of silent film.
    —Choice
  • This book should serve many reference uses for a long time to come. Research collections with film interests will need this book.
    —Book of the South West
Description: This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. Numerous one-, two- and three-reelers are included in this guide. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct. The term "western" is hard to define; someone once commented that a western had to have a horse in it. The genre generally applies to that post-Civil War period beginning with the great cattle drives and ending around 1890. But the author has included tales about early California, Mexico, various Indian tribes along the Eastern seaboard, the building of the railroad, the gold rush of 1849 and the search for gold in the Yukon. Other films which seem to have less in common with the genre, such as northern westerns, are listed in a separate appendix.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Distributors
  • Abbreviations
  • A Guide to Silent Westerns
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A: Serials Included in the Guide
  • Appendix B: Northwestern Feature Films
  • Appendix C: Series and Their Stars
  • Appendix D: Silent Western Epics
  • Index
LC Card Number: 92-23783
LCC Class: PN1995
Dewey Class: 016.79143
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