Select Bibliographywesterns and american cultureAquila, Richard, ed. Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
Bergon, Frank, and Zeese Papanikolas, eds. Looking Far West: The Search for the American West in History, Myth, and Literature. New York: New American Library, 1978
Durham, Philip, and Everett L. Jones, eds. The Western Story: Fact, Fiction, and Myth. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975
Fiedler, Leslie. The Return of the Vanishing American. New York: Stein and Day, 1960
Fischer, Christiane, ed. Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977
Hitt, Jim. The American West from Fiction (1823–1976) into Film (1909–1986). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1990
Rossi, Paul, and David C. Hunt. The Art of the Old West. New York: Knopf, 1971
Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Atheneum, 1992
Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. New York: Vintage, 1950
Taft, Robert. Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 1850–1900. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953
Taylor, George Rogers, ed. The Turner Thesis: Concerning the Role of the Frontier in American History. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1956
Tompkins, Jane. West of Everything: The Inner Life of the Western. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992
Turner, Frederick Jackson. Frontier and Section, ed. Ray Allen Billington. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1961
Tuska, Jon, and Nick Pierarski. The Frontier Experience: A Reader's Guide to the Life and Literature of the American West. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1984
westerns filmBataille, Gretchen M., and Charles L. P. Silet, eds. The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1980
Bazin, André. “The Evolution of the Western.” In What is Cinema? vol. 2, pp. 149–57. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Reprinted in Movies and Methods, ed. Bill Nichols, pp. 150–7. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976
Bazin, André “The Western, or the American Film par excellence.” In What is Cinema? vol. 2, pp. 140–8. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971
Buscombe, Ed, ed. The BFI Companion to the Western. New York: Atheneum, 1990
Buscombe, Ed, and Robert E. Pearson, eds. Back in the Saddle Again: New Essays on the Western. London: British Film Institute, 1998
Cameron, Ian, and Douglas Pye, eds. The Book of Westerns. New York: Continuum Press, 1996
Cawelti, John G. The Six-Gun Mystique, rev. ed. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1985
Coyne, Michael. The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in the Hollywood Western. London: I. B. Taurus, 1998
Fenin, George N., and William K. Everson. The Western: From Silents to the Seventies. New York: Bonanza Books, 1973
Frayling, Christopher. “The American Western and American Society.” Cinema, Politics and Society in America, ed. Philip Davies and Brian Neve, pp. 136–62. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981
French, Philip. Westerns. New York: Viking, 1974
Gallagher, Tag. “Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the Evolution of the Western.” Film Genre Reader 2, ed. Barry Keith Grant, pp. 246–60. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995
Hardy, Phil. The Western: The Complete Film Sourcebook. New York: Morrow, 1983
Kitses, Jim. Horizons West. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970
Kitses, Jim, and Gregg Rickman, eds. The Western Reader. New York: Limelight Press, 1998
Langman, Larry. A Guide to Silent Westerns. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992
Lenihan, John H. Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980
McDonald, Archie P. Shooting Stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987
Mitchell, Lee Clark. Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
Nachbar, Jack. Western Films: An Annotated Critical Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1975
Nachbar, Jack, et al. Western Films 2: An Annotated Critical Bibliography from 1974 to 1987. New York: Garland, 1988
Nachbar, Jack, ed. Focus on the Western. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974
O'Connor, John E. The Hollywood Indian: Stereotypes of Native Americans in Films. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1980
Parish, James R. Great Western Stars. New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1976
Pilkington, William T., and Don Graham, eds. Western Movies. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979
Rainey, Buck. Saddle Aces of the Cinema. San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980
Rothel, David. The Singing Cowboys. South Brunswick, N.J., and New York: A. S. Barnes, 1978
Sarf, Wayne Michael. God Bless You, Buffalo Bill: A Layman's Guide to History and the Western Film. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983
Schatz, Thomas. Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking and the Studio System. New York: Random House, 1981
Schatz, Thomas “The Western.” In Handbook of American Film Genres, ed. Wes D. Gehring, pp. 25–46. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988
Stedman, Raymond William. Shadows of the Indian. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986
Tuska, Jon. The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western. New York: Greenwood Press, 1985
Warshow, Robert. “Movie Chronicle: The Westerner.” In The Immediate Experience, pp. 35– 54. New York: Atheneum, 1971
Wright, Will. Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976
john fordAleiss, Angela. “A Race Divided: The Indian Westerns of John Ford.”American Indian Culture and Research Journal 18 (1994): 167–86
Anderson, Lindsay. About John Ford. London: Plexus, 1981
Baxter, John. The Cinema of John Ford. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1971
Bogdanovich, Peter. John Ford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968
Budd, Michael. “Genre, Director and Stars in John Ford's Westerns: Fonda, Wayne, Stewart and Widmark.”Wide Angle 2, no. 4 (1978): 52–61
Budd, Michael “A Home in the Wilderness: Visual Imagery in John Ford's Westerns.”Cinema Journal 16, no. 1 (Fall 1996): 62–75
Carey, Harry Jr. Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984
Darby, William. John Ford's Westerns: A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1996
Davis, Ronald L. John Ford: Hollywood's Old Master. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995
Dempsey, Michael. “John Ford: A Reassessment.”Film Quarterly 28, no. 4 (Summer 1975): 2–15
Ellis, Kirk. “On the Warpath: John Ford and the Indians.”Journal of Popular Film and Television 8, no. 2 (1980): 34–41
Eyman, Scott. Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999
Ford, Dan. Pappy: The Life of John Ford. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979
Gallagher, Tag. John Ford: The Man and His Films. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986
Kaminsky, Stuart M. “The Genre Director: Character Types in the Films of John Ford.” Chap. 11 in American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film. Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum, 1974
Leutrat, Jean-Louis, and Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues. “John Ford and Monument Valley,” in Back in the Saddle Again: New Essays on the Western, ed. Edward Buscombe and Roberta A. Pearson, pp. 160–9. London: British Film Institute, 1998
Levy, Bill. John Ford: A Bio-bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998
Luhr, William, and Peter Lehman. Authorship and Narrative in the Cinema. New York: Capricorn, 1977
Maltby, Richard. “A Better Sense of History: John Ford and the Indians.” The Book of Westerns, ed. Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye, pp. 34–49. New York: Continuum, 1996
Marshall, George J.“Ford on Ford.”Films in Review (June/July, 1964): 321–32
McBride, Joseph, and Michael Wilmington. John Ford. New York: Da Capo, 1975
McCarthy, Todd. “John Ford and Monument Valley.”American Film 3, no. 7 (1978): 10–16
Nolly, Ken. “Printing the Legend in the Age of MX: Reconsidering Ford's Military Trilogy.”Literature/Film Quarterly 14, no. 2 (1986): 82–8
Nolly, Ken “The Representation of Conquest: John Ford and the Hollywood Indian, 1939–1964.” Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film, ed. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor, pp. 73–90. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1998
Pechter, William S. “A Persistence of Vision.” Twenty-Four Times a Second: Films and Film-Makers, pp. 226–41. New York: Harper & Row, 1971
Place, J. A. The Non-Western Films of John Ford. New York: Citadel Press, 1979
Place, J. A. The Western Films of John Ford. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1975
Sarris, Andrew. The John Ford Movie Mystery. London: Secker & Warburg/British Film Institute, 1976
Sinclair, Andrew. John Ford: A Biography. New York: Dial Press, 1979
Siska, William C.“Realism and Romance in the Films of John Ford.”Wide Angle 2, no. 4 (1978): 8–14
Stowell, Peter. John Ford. Boston: Twayne, 1986
Studlar, Gaylyn, and Matthew Bernstein, eds. John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001
White, Armond. “Stepping Forward, Looking Back.”Film Comment 36, no. 2 (March/April 2000): 32–9
Wollen, Peter. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, rev. ed. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press/British Film Institute, 1972
Wood, Robin. “‘Shall We Gather at the River?’: The Late Films of John Ford.”Film Comment 7, no. 3 (Fall 1971): 8–17
Wood, Robin “John Ford.” Cinema: A Critical Dictionary, Vol. 1, ed. Richard Roud, pp. 371–87. New York: Viking, 1980
stagecoachAction 6, no. 5 (September–October 1971). Special Issue on Ford and Stagecoach. Reprinted in Directors in Action, ed. Bob Thomas, pp. 139–73. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973
Anobile, Richard J. John Ford's Stagecoach. New York: Avon Books, 1975
Browne, Nick. “The Spectator-in-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach.”Film Quarterly 21, no. 2 (Winter 1975–1976): 26–38
Buscombe, Ed. Stagecoach. London: British Film Institute, 1992
Clandfield, David. “The Onomastic Code of Stagecoach.” Literature/Film Quarterly 5, no. 2 (Spring 1979): 174–80. Reprinted as “Stagecoach” in Western Movies, ed. William T. Pilkington and Don Graham, pp. 31–9. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979
Ford, John, and Dudley Nichols. Stagecoach. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
Nichols, Dudley. Stagecoach, in Twenty Best Film Plays, ed. John Gassner and Dudley Nichols. New York: Crown, 1943
Skerry, Philip J.“Space and Place in John Ford's Stagecoach and My Darling Clementine.”New Orleans Review 14, no. 2 (1987): 87–91
Solomon, Stanley J. Beyond Formula: American Film Genres. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976
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