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It argues that the Western created an enduring modern mythology rooted in moral conflict, individual loneliness, the openness of the land, and courage against natural or human obstacles. The book positions itself as the first complete narrative of this uniquely American film form, addressing past neglect and offering a critical, chronological analysis.","FROM SILENTS TO CINBRAMA  \ncinerama    \n$12.50  \nY  \nTheWestern  \nFROM SILENTS TO CINERAMA  \nby George N.Feninand William K.Everson  \nILLUSTRATED  \nThis lavishly illustrated book isthe first to tell the full story of theWestern,the most truly Americanof films.Ever since 1903,when TheGreat Train Robbery was made,theWestern flm has held a special placein American life,its source beingthe history and folklore of ourcountry.  \nIn the United States and in almostevery part of the world,the imageof the lonely cowboy on horsebackon the wide prairie has become partof a modern mythology;it is anAmerican mythology,based on thosethemes closest to America's soul:thenever-ending battle between goodand evil,the loneliness of the individual going his own way,the senseof the land-a wide,free land-andthe triumph of personal courageover any obstacles,whether they bethose of nature or of man.  \nFilms like The Great Train Rob-bery,Hell's Hinges,The CoveredWagon,The Iron Horse,Stagecoach,Broken Arrow,Shane and HighNoon are part of our past and pres-ent,part of our continuing culture.And the stars of these films,BroncoBilly Anderson,William S.Hart,Tom Mix,Buck JonesHoot Gib-  \nwww.nilesfilmmuseum.org  \nFremont,CA 94536  \nScanned from the collections ofNiles Essanay Silent Film Museum  \nCoordinated by the  \nMedia History Digital Librarywww.mediahistoryproject.org  \nFunded by a donation fromJeff Joseph  \nThe Orion PressNew York  \nGeorge N.Fenin andWilliam K.Everson  \nThe Western  \nfrom silents to cinerama  \nFirst printingAll rights reserued◎1962 by George N.Fenin and William K.EvrSONLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:62-15016Designed by Wladislaa FinneManfactuvred in the United States of America  \nTO WILLIAM S.HART  \nthe finest Western star and director of themall,and the best friend the West everhad,this book is reverently and sincerelydedicated.  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2012 with funding fromMedia History Digital Library  \nhttp://archive.org/details/westernfromsiOOfeni  \n# Foreword\n\nFor many years the Western film has beenstrangely and unfairly neglected.Althoughmany articles and essays have appeared ingeneral and specialized periodicals all overthe world,substantially organic books deal-ing exclusively with the Western are veryrare indeed.And of all this material,themajority has been disguised publicity,or atbest essays which refused to take the Westernseriously,the work of writers who knew littleor nothing of Westerns,writers who gliblyreferred to the cliché of the hero alwayskissing his horse instead of the girl,leavingit at that.  \nThere have been innumerable histories ofthe cinema,more specialized histories deal-ing with the cinema in various countries,and books devoted to individual directors,producers,executives,and stars.But if thegeneral history of the movies has been told,only three books of any stature have beendevoted specifically to the Western,all offoreign origin:Il Film Western,by Italiancritic Antonio Chiattone;Il Western Mag-giorenne,a symposium of essays by variousItalian critics,edited by Tullio Kezich;andLe Western,by French critic Jean-LouisRieupeyrout.Of these,the first is a seriousbut necessarily incomplete and at timesrather arbitrary study of the aesthetics ofthe Western;the second is most useful as aground-breaking instrument for a system-atic treatise,although it is necessarily frag-mentary as a symposium;and the third is aless than thorough attempt to both narrate  \nviii  \nTHE WESTERN  \nthe historical background of the West and to describe the growth of theWestern film,the coverage of this second aspect being characterized bynumerous errors of a nature almost unavoidable when one is workingso far from the bulk of the source material.  \nWe felt,therefore,that there was not only room,but a need,for adetailed history of the Western,a book which would represent not onlya useful study of the industrial and aesthetic growth of a popular moviegenre,but a critical analysis o it,as well.For the most part,we have","cbCaih3gn7eG765q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih3gn7eG765q","pdf",20017828,6,1,390,"English","en",105,"# Foreword\n## Purpose and neglect of Western scholarship\n## Scope and critical approach","[{\"question\":\"What does the book claim about the Western film’s place in culture?\",\"answer\":\"It presents the Western as a special, enduring part of American life, drawing on American history and folklore to form a modern mythology.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do the authors say previous Western literature was inadequate?\",\"answer\":\"They describe much of it as disguised publicity or essays that did not take the Western seriously, often by writers who knew little about it.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the authors structure the book’s analysis of the genre?\",\"answer\":\"They 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