The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning.(Book review)

The West in Early Cinema: After The Beginning

by Nanna Verhoeff. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006, illus. 464 pp. Hardcover: $80.00 and Paperback: $32.50.

Late nineteenth-century American representational painting might not immediately suggest itself as a key influence on the early Western film genre, but as Nanna Verhoeff labors to make plain in this ambitious study, the nascent cinema of Horace Greeley's bygone era owed as much to Frederic Remington and the great landscape painters as it did the tall tales of an age which ended only a couple of d