| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Book Review

Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail. By Peter Stanfield. (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. ix + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $79.95, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

Although it would seem that everything one might want to know about westerns has already been written, Peter Stanfield's new book on the subject proves otherwise. Stanfield examines the initial popularity, subsequent decline, and later revival of westerns in Hollywood during the 1930s, focusing on the major studios' production and marketing of films based on their perception of consumer demand. Thus, Stanfield is sometimes more concerned with production statistics and behind-thescenes business decisions than he is with the mythic appeal, formulaic structure, or cultural content of westerns, unlike most scholars. His decision to treat all westerns equally, as output produced by the studios, instead of privileging a small canon of classics, yields fascinating new insights into the genre during this decade. . . .

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