The Invention of the Western Film ranges across literature, visual arts, social history, ideology, and legend to provide, for the First time, an in-depth exploration of the early Western, from short kinetoscopes of the 1890s through "classic" features of the 1940s.
By examining the American Indian\'s rise and demise during the silent era, B- Westerns of the 1930s, and film noir-influenced Westerns of the 1940s, Scott Simmon\'s pioneering study silhouettes the genre\'s evolution against a myriad.
The Invention of the Western Film ranges across literature, visual arts, social history, ideology, and legend to provide, for the First time, an in-depth exploration of the early Western, from short kinetoscopes of the 1890s through "classic" features of the 1940s
