Wikipedia:WikiProject Westerns/Film/Sources

Lists in other projects

The general sources listed in the Film project are considered to be reliable. These can be especially helpful when looking for sources on contemporary works for which there may not be as much academic source availability.

For works that are television films, there is a list of sources that the Television Project has deemed to be reliable through consensus. Note that most of these will provide sources of reliable information on newer programming, such as Yellowstone, or Justified, but for mid-century classic Westerns, you'll have better luck with the sources noted below.

Sources

General Western films

• Broughton, Lee (ed). Critical Perspectives on the Western : From a Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)

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• Carter, Matthew. Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)

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• Edgerton, Gary R. & Marsden, Michael T. eds. Westerns: The Essential Journal of Popular Film & Television Collection (Routledge, 2012)

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Westerns: The Essential Journal of Popular Film & Television Collection at the Internet Archive

<ref name="Edgerton">{{Cite book |last=Edgerton |first=Gary R. |title=Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection |date=2013-09-13 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-76515-6 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eraAAAAQBAJ}}</ref>

• McDonald, Archie P. Shooting stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film (Indiana University Press, 1987)

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Shooting stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film at the Internet Archive

<ref name="McDonald>{{Cite book |last=McDonald |first=Archie P. |title=Shooting Stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-8357-3957-3 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9z5JPgAACAAJ}}</ref>

• Matheson, Sue. The Westerns and War Films of John Ford (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)

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<ref name="Matheson">{{Cite book |last=Matheson |first=Sue |title=The Westerns and War Films of John Ford |date=2016 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1-4422-6106-8 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMZ4CwAAQBAJ}}</ref>

• Munn, Michael. John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth (Robson Books, 2004)

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<ref name="Munn">{{Cite book |last=Munn |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Munn |title=John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth |date=2005 |publisher=[[Robson Books]] |isbn=978-1-101-21026-0 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVJL6w1T3ocC}}</ref>

• Parks, Rita. The Western Hero in Film and Television: Mass Media Mythology (UMI Research Press, 1982)

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<ref name="Parks">{{Cite book |last=Parks |first=Rita |title=The Western Hero in Film and Television: Mass Media Mythology |date=1982 |publisher=[[UMI Research Press]] |isbn=978-0-8357-1287-3 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwO1AAAAIAAJ}}</ref>

• Sarf, Wayne Michael. God Bless You, Buffalo Bill: A Layman's Guide to History and the Western Film (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983)

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God Bless You, Buffalo Bill at the Internet Archive

<ref name="Sarf">{{Cite book |last=Sarf |first=Wayne Michael |title=God Bless You, Buffalo Bill: A Layman's Guide to History and the Western Film |date=1983 |publisher=[[Fairleigh Dickinson University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8453-4732-4 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r22_IwAACAAJ}}</ref>

• Simmon, Scott. The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

The Invention of the Western Film at Google Books

The Invention of the Western Film at the Internet Archive

<ref name="Simmon">{{Cite book |last=Simmon |first=Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC |title=The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century |published=2003 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-55581-4 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC}}</ref>

• Verhoeff, Nanna. The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning (Amsterdam University Press, 2006)

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The West in Early Cinema at the Internet Archive

<ref name="Verhoeff">{{Cite book |last=Verhoeff |first=Nanna |title=The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning |date=2006 |publisher=[[Amsterdam University Press]] |isbn=978-90-5356-831-6 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKDAsYDXxz8C}}</ref>

Silent films

• Langman, Larry A Guide to Silent Westerns (Greenwood Publishing, 1992)

<ref name="Langman">{{Cite book |last=Langman |first=Larry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC |title=A Guide to Silent Westerns |date=1992 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-27858-7 |language=en}}</ref>

• The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921-1930

Other

Some of these encompass both film and television.

• Rollins, Peter C. & O'Connor, John E. eds. Hollywood's West: the American frontier in film, television, and history (University Press of Kentucky, 2005)

Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History at Google Books

Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History at the Internet Archive

<ref name="Rollins">{{Cite book |last=Rollins |first=Peter C. |last2=O'Connor |first2=John E. |title=Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History |date=2005-11-11 |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |isbn=978-0-8131-3855-8 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suc99SBlbnEC&newbks=0}}</ref>

Sources to be avoided

Any sites that are primarily user generated content and/or lack editorial oversight should be avoided. This includes IMDb, blu-ray.com, Fandom, Wikia, and others like them.