The BFI Companion to the Western, edited by Edward Buscombe; forward by Richard Schickel (New York: Atheneum, 1988).

LOCATION

Main Oversize: PN 1995.9W4B45 1988

Includes essays on the history of the Western, a "dictionary of people, places, events, and ideas that shaped it," guide to the films and filmmakers, including TV Westerns.

Clint Eastwood as "Blondie" in Sergio Leone's classic "spaghetti western," The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western, John Tuska (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.W4T78 1985

Lee Van Cleef as "Angel Eyes" in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

The Western, Phil Hardy, ed., (The Aurum Film Encyclopedia). 2nd ed. 1995. (U.S. edition titled: The Overlook Film Encyclopedia).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.W4H37 1995

"...Contains some 1,800 entries...devoted to individual films. Each entry comprises cast, credits (director, producer, writer, cinematographer), a brief synopsis, and informed comment on the film." Includes cross-references and index. Excludes silent films.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

The Western Reader, edited by Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman, 1998.

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.W4W39 1998

Essays, commentary, and reviews on the "history, mythology, and landscape" of Western movies. The final section "reflects on how the themes and the very premises of the Western film have changed in recent years."

Nachbar, John G. Western Films: an Annotated Critical Bibliography. 1975.

LOCATION

Main Library: Z 5784.M9N33 1975

Nachbar, John G. Western Films 2: an Annotated Critical Bibliography from 1974 to 1987. 1988.

LOCATION

Main Library: Z 5784.M9N332 1988

Western Films and Western Films 2 are similar in organization, offering critical annotations to reference sources, criticism, history, individuals, performers, directors, theories, and comparative studies. The volumes include author and subject indices. In the ten years since its last edition, many more westerns have been made, and much more scholarship on the western has been published. The time has come for another edition of this unique work.