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Buscombe, Edward, ed. The BFI Companion to the Western. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

Buscombe, Edward, “Inventing Monument Valley: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography and the Western Film.” In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 115-130. [taken from Fugitive Images, ed. by Patrice Petro]

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Dough Williams, “Pilgrims and the Promised Land: A Genealogy of the Western.” In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 93-113.

Dugnat, Raymond and Simmon, Scott, 1998 (1980) “Six Creeds that Won the Western.”. In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 69- 84. [originally published in Film Comment, September-October, 1980].

Eckstein, Arthur M. and Lehman, Peter, eds. The Searchers: Essays and Reflection on John Ford’s Classic Western. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004.

French, Philip. 1973. Westerns: Aspects of a Movie Genre. London: Secker & Warburg, 1973.

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Gallager, Tag. “Angels Gambol Where They Will: John Ford’s Indians.” In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 69- 84. 269-275. [originally published in Film Comment September-October, 1993].

Gallagher, Tag. “Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the “Evolution” of the Western.” In Film Genre Reader III. Barry Keith Grant, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003, 262-276.

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Holmlund, Chris. “Nouveaux Western for the 1990s: Genre Offshoot, Audience Reroutes”. Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 51-67.

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Kitses, Jim and Rickman, Gregg, eds. The Western Reader. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998.

Kitses, Jim. “Authorship and Genre: Notes on the Western,”. In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 57-68. [taken from Horizon West: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: Studies of Authorship within the Western. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969].

Kitses, Jim. Horizon West: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: Studies of Authorship within the Western. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.

Kitses, Jim. 1998. “An Exemplary Post-Modern Western: The Ballad of Little Jo”. In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 367-380.

Kitses, Jim. 1998. “Peckinpah Revisited: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.” In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 223-243.

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Lehman, Peter. “Looking at Look’s Missing Reverse Shot: Psychoanalysis and Style in John Ford’s The Searchers.” In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 259-268. [taken from Wide Angle 4. 4, 1981].

Lenihan, John H. Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film. Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 1985 (1980).

Lovell, Alan. “The Western”. In Movies and Methods, Bill Nichols ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Lucas, Blake. “Saloon Girls and Ranchers’ Daughters: The Woman in the Western.” In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 301-320.

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Modleski, Tania. “Our Heroes Have Sometimes Been Cowgirls”. In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998,355-366. [originally published in Film Quarterly 49. 2 (Winter 1995-96).]

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Neale, Steve. “Vanishing Americans: Racial and Ethnic Issues in the Interpretation and Context of Post-war ‘Pro-Indian’ Westerns”. Back in the Saddle Again: New Essays on the Western. Edward Buscombe and Roberta Pearson, eds. London: British Film Institute, 1998, 8-28.

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Peek, Wendy Chapman. “The Romance of Competence: Rethinking Masculinity in the Western.” Journal of Popular Film & TV, 30. 4 (Winter 2003), 206-219.

Peterson, Janet. 1998 (1996) “The Competing Tunes of Johnny Guitar: Liberalism, Sexuality, Masquerade.” In The Western Reader. Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, eds. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998, 321-339. [taken from Cinema Journal 35. 3, 1996]

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