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State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies (Texas Small Books)
Don Graham
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Hardcover. 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. Offering an overview of Texas in the movies, this book presents commentary on the wretched films about the Lone Star State. Num Pages: 96 pages, 30 b&w illustrations, bib., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 114 x 11. Weight in Grams: 150.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653679
SKU
V9780875653679
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Ref
99-64
About Don Graham
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 ... Read more
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