Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood

By Andrew Brodie Smith

Academics have generally dismissed Hollywood's cowboy and Indian movies - one of its defining successful genres - as specious, one-dimensional, and crassly commercial. In Shooting Cowboys and Indians, Andrew Brodie Smith challenges this simplistic characterization of the genre, illustrating the complex and sometimes contentious process by which business interests commercialized images of the West.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870817469
• ISBN13: 9780870817465
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"