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Author:   David Meuel
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9780786494521

ISBN 10:   0786494522
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 February 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface  1 Introduction: The Dark Cowboy Rides into Town  5 1. The Darkening West: Conscience and Cruelty Collide in William Wellman’s The ­Ox-Bow Incident, Yellow Sky and Track of the Cat  21 2. The Tyranny of Troubled Pasts: Escape and the Futility of It in Raoul Walsh’s Pursued and Colorado Territory  38 3. Where Treachery Springs Eternal: Staying Human in the Harsh Worlds of André de Toth’s Ramrod and Day of the Outlaw  55 4. “The topography of menace”: Painting the Western Black in Robert Wise’s Blood on the Moon  70 5. Westerns Shaken and Stirred: Sam Fuller Upends Genre Conventions in I Shot Jesse James and Forty Guns  81 6. Delving Deeper into the Dark Side: Gregory Peck’s ­Noir-ish Heroes in Henry King’s The Gunfighter and The Bravados  97 7. Deliverance on a Down Note: The Tortured, Grimly Determined Heroes of Anthony Mann’s Devil’s Doorway, The Naked Spur and Man of the West  115 8. Nightmare in Broad Daylight: Evil Poses as the Law in Allan Dwan’s Silver Lode  140 9. Helping the Western to Grow Up: The Complex, Shaded Characters in Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma and The Hanging Tree  150 10. “They’re going to kill us, Mrs. Mims”: Horror and Absurdity Ride Together in Budd Boetticher’s The Tall T and Ride Lonesome  168 11. Darkness in Shinbone: Noir Is Busting Out All Over in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance  185 Conclusion: Ride On, Dark Cowboy  197 Fifty Additional ­Noir-ish ­Postwar Westerns Worth Seeing  199 Chapter Notes  205 Bibliography  209 Index  211

Reviews

"Meuel manages to find new insights and areas not previously explored by other writers."" - Barry Forshaw, CrimeTime and DVD Choices websites, October 2015"

Meuel manages to find new insights and areas not previously explored by other writers. - Barry Forshaw, CrimeTime and DVD Choices websites, October 2015

Author Information

The author of multiple books on film history, David Meuel has also published two books of poems, more than two dozen short stories, and hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from U.S. national parks to high technology. He lives in Gig Harbor, Washington.

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