Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Directing the Western: Practice and Theory. 2. John Ford: Founding Father 3. Anthony Mann: The Overreacher 4. Budd Boetticher: Rules of the Game 5. Sam Peckinpah: The Savage Eye 6. Sergio Leone: A Fistful of Westerns 7. Clint Eastwood: Tightrope Walker Select Filmography Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Jim Kitses is Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University. He is author of Gun Crazy (BFI, 1994) and coeditor of The Western Reader (1998).

Reviews

"Indispensable guide to the Western."--Douglas Pye