Ride Lonesome

Author:   Kirk Ellis
Publisher:   University of New Mexico Press
ISBN:  

9780826364616


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   31 March 2023
Format:   Paperback
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"Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in the ""Ranown cycle,"" is both the best and most representative of the whole series, which has been called ""the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking."" Director Bud Boetticher captures the alienation and loneliness of an America faced with the Cold War and the daily threat of nuclear annihilation. Shot in seventeen days for under a half-million dollars, Ride Lonesome is a masterpiece of cinematic minimalism. Veteran screenwriter Kirk Ellis brilliantly unpacks the themes, narrative, visual language, and editing in this seminal film. In Ride Lonesome Ellis not only shows how this one film embodies a turning point for the Western, but he also explores the unique vision and contributions of director Boetticher and his writing partner Burt Kennedy."

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Author:   Kirk Ellis
Publisher:   University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:   University of New Mexico Press
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780826364616


ISBN 10:   0826364616
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   31 March 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"""Ride Lonesome offers fresh insight into the careers of screenwriter/director Burt Kennedy and legendary film auteur Budd Boetticher, as well as a blow-by-blow account of the making of Ride Lonesome, one of the great American films. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Western movies.""--W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film ""Kirk Ellis provides an accessible and erudite account of how, in a perfectly aligned set of creative associations, the filmmakers came to produce Ride Lonesome, one of the truly great Westerns. For anyone interested in Budd Boetticher or the genre more generally, this is an essential study.""--Peter Stanfield, coeditor of ""Un-American"" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era"


Ride Lonesome offers fresh insight into the careers of screenwriter/director Burt Kennedy and legendary film auteur Budd Boetticher, as well as a blow-by-blow account of the making of Ride Lonesome, one of the great American films. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Western movies. W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, A Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film Kirk Ellis provides an accessible and erudite account of how, in a perfectly aligned set of creative associations, the filmmakers came to produce Ride Lonesome, one of the truly great Westerns. For anyone interested in Budd Boetticher or the genre more generally, this is an essential study. Peter Stanfield, coeditor of Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era


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Kirk Ellis is a two-time Emmy Award and two-time Humanitas Prize-winning writer/producer who wrote and produced the acclaimed event series John Adams. Among his many other credits are the Emmy-nominated Into the West and the Emmy Award-winning Anne Frank: The Whole Story. Formerly cogovernor of the writers' branch of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and past president of the Western Writers of America, Ellis splits his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Palm Springs, California.

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