| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half-Century. By Scott Simmon. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 393 pp. Illustraions, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00, cloth; $30.00, paper.)

Scott Simmon's The Invention of the Western Film is a book made up of three parts, each of which are essentially extended thematic essays. The first part draws largely on the films of D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince and discusses the changing role of Indian characters in silent Westerns. The second part compares, through the films of John Wayne, the politics and historical conceits of A and B Westerns of the 1930s. The third and final section is an in-depth analysis of John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

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