The western : the combat film /

Featuring clips and critical commentary on films from John Ford's seminal Stagecoach (1939), Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992) through the work of Arthur Penn, Sam Peckinpah, and other important directors, the program traces the aesthetic evolution of the Western film as well as the socio...

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Corporate Authors: New York Center for Visual History, KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.), British Broadcasting Corporation, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), Fox Video (Firm)
Format: Video VHS
Language:English
Published: Beverly Hills, CA : Fox Video, Inc., [1995]
Series:American cinema ; 3.
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Summary:Featuring clips and critical commentary on films from John Ford's seminal Stagecoach (1939), Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992) through the work of Arthur Penn, Sam Peckinpah, and other important directors, the program traces the aesthetic evolution of the Western film as well as the sociological importance of the genre. In the second segment, historians, directors and military leaders describe the evolution of the World War II combat film, the rise of the Vietnam film, the influence of factual newsreel documentaries on fiction film genre, and the narrative tradition linking such films as Bataan (1943) and Platoon (1968).
Item Description:Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Episodes 4 and 6 of the series originally broadcast in 1994 on PBS.
"8235."
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videocassette (120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.
Format:VHS.
Production Credits:Editor, Christopher Tellefson and Peter Hammer.