Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Film
Autor: Strani

Hollywood Westerns: The Movies; The Heroes. Includes 64 page full colour book and 6 free 8` x 10` Prints
This new pack entitled `Hollywood Westerns: The Movies; The Heroes` by Helen Akitt contains a glossy colour book on the Westerns (movies) and the heroes in them. It was published by Instinctive Product Development in 2013. It includes 6 free colour 8` by 10` prints. Contents: Introduction; Rebels with a Cause; Westerns and Hollywood; The History of the Western; Themes and Morality; Great Directors and Producers; Great Western Actors and Actresses; Top Westerns; and The Final Curtain? Westerns are one of the oldest, most enduring, and most typically American of film genres. Set on the American frontier during the last part of the 19th Century, they portray the conquest of the wilderness and the taming of nature, in the name of civilization. Hollywood sold its stories about the West to an eager American public, from the series westerns of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers with their clean-cut stars, fun-loving sidekicks, and guitar strumming sing-alongs, to the obsessed, revenge-bent heroes of Anthony Mann`s majestic 1950s westerns. Western myths, legends, and heroes have entered American popular culture - from clothes (denim jackets, jeans and cowboy boots) to children`s toys (cap guns, rubber-tipped arrows, and tom toms) and its vocabulary has entered the English language (such as `round up` and `bury the hatchet`). It created a `code of honour` by which all mid-20th century children wanted to live, and it made household names of a myriad of actors such as Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and Tom Mix were among the heroes doing battle with the American Indians who were, rightly or wrongly, portrayed as the enemy. The western seemed likely to fade away in the face of post-war cynicism, and it was only when movies such as Kevin Costner`s Dances with Wolves and Clint Eastwood`s Unforgiven repositioned the genre in the 1990s that the Western started to look like it still had a place as a modern art form