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Links
and Documentation
Sites dedicated to the WESTERN movies :
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 !
° Westernpoudrenoire : a french aficionados site and a forum dedicated to Westerns and Guns.
° Western Corsica : a corsican site dedicated to Guns and Westerns.
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 Free game on line (mixture of FPS and RPG) in the Far West world. A must for any gringo on the web.
° West and Western : a portal and more
In Spanish :
° Imagenes de leyenda
° Territorio ranown
Books dedicated to the WESTERN genre :
In English :
- "Western Film Series of the Sound Era", by Michael R. Pitts, McFarland.
- "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 Six-Gun Mystique"
by John G. Cawelti, Bowling Green University Popular Press (1970 and 1999)
- "The cowboy's
trail guide to Westerns", by David Matuzak.
- "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
- "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
- "Stagecoach" (Bfi Film Classics)
by Edward Buscombe
- "Red River" (Bfi Film Classics)
by Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues
- "John Ford : The man and his films" by Tag Gallagher, University of California Prress (1986)
- "The Western films of John Ford" by J. A. Place, Scarecrow Press (1974)
- "Horizons West-Anthony West, budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah : studies of authorship with the Western", by Jim Kitses, Thames & Hudson, London (1969)
- "Peckinpah: the Western films" by Paul Seydor, University of Illionis Press (1980)
- "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
- "Cinema southwest, an illustrated guide to the movies and their locations", by John A. Murray, Northland publishing.
- "Westerns of the Red Rock Country : 43 movies filmed in Sedona" by Bob Bradshaw
- "Where God put the West : movie making in the desert, from Moab to Monument Valley" by Bette Stanton, Moab to Monument Valley film commission (1994)
- "Movie making", booklet by Canyon country chronicles
- "Selling the Wild West ; Popular Western fiction, 1860-1960", by Christine Bold, Bloomington : Indiana University press
- "Western movies" by Don Graham and William P. Pilkington, University of New Mexico Press
- "The life and times of Western movie" by Jay Hyams, W. H. Smith (1983)
- "The Westerners: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Writers and Producers" by C. Courtney Joyner, McFarland Publishing
- "Universal-international Westerns, 1947-1963: The Complete Filmography", by Gene Blottner (2000)
- "Universal Sound Westerns, 1929-1946: The Complete Filmography", by Gene Blottner (2000)
- "A descriptive study of the network television Western during the seasons 1955-1963", by Donald H. Kirkley, Arno Press, New York (1979)
- "Winners of the West : the sagebrush heroes of the Silent Screen" by Kalton C. Lahue, Barnes and Co, New York (1970)
- "Showdown : confronting modern American in the Western film" by John H. Lenihan, University of Chicago Press (1980)
- "Heroes, Heavies and Sagebrush" by Arthur McClure and Ken D. Jones, Barnes and Co, New York (1972)
- "Westerns : making the man in fiction and film" by Lee Clark Mitchell, University of Chicago
- "Western films : an annotated critical bibliography" by Jack Nachbar, Garland, New York (1982)
- "The great western pictures" by James Robert Parrish and Michael R. Pitts, Scarecrow Prress (1982)
- "The Searchers" By Edward Buscombe, BFI Film Classics (2008)
- "Gunfighter nation : the myth of the Frontier in twentieth-century America" by Robert Sklar, Atheneum, New York (1992)
- "The western hero in Film and Legend" by Kent Ladd Steckmesser, University of Oklahoma Press (1965)
- "The filming of the West", by Jon Tuska, Doubleday New york (1976)
- "Six gun and society : a structural study of the Western" by Will Wright, University of California Press (1975)
- "The western hero in film and television : mass media mythology" by Rita Parks, UMI research Press
- "Once upon a time in the Italian West" by Richard Hughes
- "Spaghetti westerns : Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone" by Christopher Frayling, Routledge and Kegan, London (19871)
In French :
- "80 grands succès du western", by
Pierre Tchernia & Jean-Claude Romer, Casterman ed.
- "Le western B, les années 1930-1939", by
Didier Lodieu, Ysec ed.
- "L'espace filmique : sur la piste des diligences", by
Odile Bächler, L'Harmattan ed.
- "Le western,
quand la légende devient réalité", by
Jean-Louis Leutrat, Gallimard ed.
- "CinémAction n° 86,
Western, que reste-t-il de nos amours?",
by Gérard Camy - C. Corlet
- "Le western, une histoire parallèle des Etats-Unis", by
William Bourton, PUF ed.
- "Histoire mondiale des westerns", by
Eric Leguèbe, Rocher ed.
- "Splendeur du western", by
Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues, Jean-Louis Leutrat, Rouge Profond ed.
- "Il était une fois… le western européen", by Jean-François Giré, Bazaar&Co ed.
- "Il était une fois en Italie... Les westerns de Sergio Leone", by
Christopher Frayling, La Martinière ed.
- "Sergio Leone, le jeu de l'Ouest", by
Oreste De Fornari, Gremese ed.
- "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)
- 
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).
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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"!!!
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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.
- Passion-Cinema
- 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.).
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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...
Warning
: this site is a private one.
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.
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