State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies (Texas Small Books) - Hardcover

Graham, Don

 
9780875653679: State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies (Texas Small Books)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0875653677 ISBN 13: 9780875653679
Verlag: Texas Christian University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

From the earliest days of film, Texas and its colorful history offered promising story lines comprised of heroes, images, lore, and legend that filmmakers could return to again and again. And so they did in films about the Alamo, the Texas Rangers, the ubiquitous cowboy and the trail drives, big ranchers, and bigger wildcatters. With the advent of the Talkies, Texas movies continued to be a staple of Hollywood backlot productions, mainly in the form of B Westerns.

In the golden age of Texas cinema—dating from the end of World War II to the assassination of JFK—the Western continued to be the predominant genre. A roll call of the most notable Texas movies would include Red River, Giant (probably the single most influential Texas movie of all), The Searchers, Hud and The Last Picture Show.

The reader is invited to return to those thrilling days of yesteryear as well as to consider the most recent cinematic efforts to capture one of the nation’s most mythologized places. After a brief overview of Texas in the movies, the book offers detailed commentary on the most important, the most interesting, or, in a few cases, the most wretched films about the Lone Star State.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Don Graham is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas (1983); No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy (1989); Giant Country: Essays on Texas (1998); and Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire (2003). In 2003 Graham edited Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande, and in 2007, Literary Austin (TCU Press). Graham has lived in Austin since the late 1970s.

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Verlag
Texas Christian University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0875653677
ISBN 13 
9780875653679
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Anzahl der Seiten
96
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