“edward buscombe”

OXFORD TELEVISION STUDIES General Editors: Charlotte Brunsdon and John Caughie Oxford Television Studies offers international authors--both established and emerging--an opportunity to reflect on particular problems of history, theory, and criticism which are specific to television and which are ce... More

Shedding new light on an old favourite, this is an enjoyable account of how the film got made, combined with a careful scene-by-scene analysis, a wealth of illustrations and the most complete credits yet assembled.More than fifty years after its first appearance, "Stagecoach" remains the most famous... More

This is a detailed commentary on all aspects of the film, "The Searchers," and makes full use of material in the John Ford archive in Indiana, including Ford's own memos and the original scripts, which differs in vital respects from the film he made.John Ford's masterpiece "The Searchers "(1956) was... More

"Unforgiven "is dedicated to Don Siegel and Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood's two cinematic mentors, who represent, respectively, the legacy of the classic Hollywood Western and the radical updating of the genre by Italian Westerns in the 1960s. William Munny, wonderfully played by Eastwood himself, fi... More

The Western is one of Hollywood cinema's most potent and enduring genres, bound up with America's understanding of itself as a frontier nation. Ed Buscombe provides an illuminating guide to a hundred key films of the genre, from "Bad Day at Black Rock" to "The Wild Bunch," to "Butch Cassidy and the ... More

The indispensable sage, fierce enemy, silent sidekick: the role of Native Americans in film has been largely confined to identities defined by the "white" perspective. Many studies have analyzed these simplistic stereotypes of Native American cultures in film, but few have looked beyond the Hollywoo... More

"Representation and Photography" contains 12 classic articles by important thinkers such as John Berger, Victor Burgin, Griselda Pollock, Jo Spence, and John Tagg. These seminal essays were first published between 1976 and 1981 in "Screen Education," the influential journal that pioneered the teachi... More

""Body Intelligence" is valuable because it's a primer for treating the cause of being overweight, not just the symptoms."--Susan Burke, M.S., RD, LD/N, CDE, Chief Nutritionist, eDiets.com. . "["Body Intelligence"] shows you how to replace restrictive diets with sustainable, positive, and healthy st... More