Links and Documentation

Sites dedicated to the WESTERN movies :

• Westerns.com : download your Westerns on Internet.
• OldWest movies : lots of information on The Major Genre and serials.
• American Western Magazine - ReadTheWest.com : The Internet Source for Western !
  
  

In French :

° PhareOuest : an interesting personal site which evoques the early French Westerns (1907-1914)

° Westerns movies : a french aficionados site and a forum. A rarity !

°
Free game on line (mixture of FPS and RPG) in the Far West world. A must for any gringo on the web.

In Spanish :

° Imagenes de leyenda

° Territorio ranown

Books dedicated to the WESTERN films :

In English :

"Westerns" by Philip French, coll. Cinema One, S&W.

"The Western, an illustrated guide" by Allen Eyles, Zwemmer et Barnes.

"Westerns films" by novelist Brian Garfield, Da Capo Publications.

"The Western", by Phil Hardy, coll. Aurum film Encyclopedia.

"The BFI companion to the Western", by Edward Buscombe, Andre Deutsch/BFI.

"A pictorial history of the Western film" by William K. Everson, Citadel Press.

"Westerns", coll. Ian Allan Film Albums.

"The Westerns, a picture quizz book", by John Cocchi, Dover Publications.

"The cowboy's trail guide to Westerns", by David Matuzak, a book which I never came across with.

"The movie book of the Western", by Ian Cameron et Douglas Pye, Studio Vista Publication.

"Westerns and the Trail of Tradition: A Year-by-Year History 1929-1962" by Barrie Hanfling, McFarland & Co Inc.

"Westerns and American Culture, 1930-1955" by R. Phillip Loy, McFarland & Co Inc.

"Westerns in a Changing America, 1955-2000", by R. Philip Loy, McFarland & Co Inc.

"Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film", by Lee Clark Mitchell, University Of Chicago Press

"Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, And History" by Peter C. Rollins (Editor) & John E. O'Connor (Editor)

"Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s, the lost trail" by Peter Stanfield

"Saddle gals, a filmography of female players in B-Westerns of the sound era" by Steve Turner and Edgar H. Wyatt

"Once upon a time in the Italian West" by Richard Hughes

"Westerns of the Red Rock Country : 43 movies filmed in Sedona" by Bob Bradshaw

"John Ford made westerns : filming the legend in the sound era" by Gaylin Studlar and Matthew Bernstein

"The Searchers" (Bfi Film Classics) by Edward Buscombe

"Red River" (Bfi Film Classics) by Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues

"The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in the Hollywood Western (Cinema and Society)"
by Michael Coyne

"The Invention of the Western Film : A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century (Genres in American Cinema S.)" by Scott Simmon

"The Western Genre" by John Saunders

"Westerns: Films through History" (AFI Film Readers) by Janet Walker

"Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America" by Richard Slotkin

"The Western (Inside Film)" by David Lusted

"North to Alaska"

In French :

"Le Western", by Gabriele Lucci (traduit de l'italien), coll. Guide des Arts, Hazan (2006).

"Le Western", by Clélia Cohen, coll. "Les petites cahiers du Cinéma" (2006).

"Le Western et ses mythes ", by Nicole Gotteri, Bernard Giovanangeli edition (2005).

"Le souffle de l'Ouest", by Dominique Blattlin, Carnot ed. 2005 (french western posters from the very beginning...)

"Le Western", collective work, Tel coll., Gallimard.

"Western", by Jean-Louis Lieutrat, Découvertes coll., Gallimard

"Le Western" by Jean-Louis Lieutrat, Prisme coll. , Armand Colin.

"La grande aventure du Western" by Jean-Louis Rieupeyrout, 7e Art coll., Cerf edition.

"Le Western", collective work , Études cinématographiques coll., n°12-13 (1961).

"Univers du Western", by G.-A. Astre and A.-P. Hoarau, Cinéma Club coll. , Seghers.

"Géographie du Western", by J. Mauduy and G. Henriet, Nathan Université.

"Le Western", par Patrick Brion, La Martinière edition.

"Histoire du Western", Pierre Bordas edition.

"50 ans de Western" by Christian Bossuyt, PAC.

"Tonnerre dans la poussière", by John R. Hamilton, Nathan Image.

Cinéma 62 magazine, n°68

Cinéma 71 magazine, n°154 : "10 ans de western".

"Le western aujourd'hui", revue du Cinéma et du son n°258 et 260, april 1972.

"Western" magazine, printed since 1972.

Star and producer in "Alamo"

Sites dedicated to the CINEMA:

- first thing first,

the movie database for the moviebuff : more than 7300 films you can sort and use offline on YOUR computer... (in French and English)

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my third site about the movies, this one dedicated to the film noir, thriller, detective or gangster film genres, etc. FilmNoir is also a subset of my CINEFAN database (in French and English).

- Internet Movie Database: the famous IMDB, at least 140 000 films ; but you can't download the database nor use it and adapt it to your taste as you can with... "WESTERNS" or "CINEFAN"!!!
- All Movie Guide: about as many films as in IMDB, but you can't downlaod the database and adapt it to your taste, make it yours, on your own PC, like with... but I seem to repeat myself !!!
- American Movie Classic
- The Movie sound page
- The Movies on line, interesting ressources for the amateur.
- Annuaire cinéma, an interesting and useful directory in french.
- CaHieR Du FiLMoGRaPHe , a personal site dedicated to filmographies.

- an interesting personal site, rich in documentation,

and another one on the same theme :

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and also

- about the Hollywood classics. and for the parisian amateurs, this unique shop :

- specialised in western americana (films, DVDs, objects, etc.).

Film encyclopedias on CD :

- Hallywell Film Guide, which works also on a Psion S5 (exists under book format also),
- All Movie Guide, Corel,
- Cinemania, Microsoft.

Finally, in order to change completely the atmosphere,
let's give a little push to the site I dedicated to my
touristical guidebooks to Greece (in French) :

and to the site my friend Étienne Barthomeuf dedicated to... some of his other friends :

 

 

John Wayne in "Hondo"

my favorite western,
by Henry Hathaway :

And a bit of nostalgia as a last link...

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Photographs presented here come from my personal collection, or from uncontrolled sources.
If some of them are used in an inappropriate manner, please tell me so that I can take the appropriate mesures.