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     "Lenihan's fine study
       [brings] new levels of scholarship and sophistication to the study of
       western films.... Should prove useful in the classroom, both for social
       history and film history courses. It will introduce readers to a new way
       to view some of the old horse operas that they had once taken for granted
       as fluffy entertainment."
       -- Western American Literature
     '"The best of the recent
       books to deal with Westerns produced since World War II --- in fact, probably
       the best recent study of the Western."
       -- Journal of the West
     "Recommended for the
       student of film and the hardcore film buff. The rest of you will be surprised,
       delighted, perhaps even angered by some of the conclusions Lenihan has
       come to."
       -- Film World
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       [brings] new levels of scholarship and sophistication to the study of
       western films.... Should prove useful in the classroom, both for social
       history and film history courses. It will introduce readers to a new way
       to view some of the old horse operas that they had once taken for granted
       as fluffy entertainment."
       -- Western American Literature
     '"The best of the recent
       books to deal with Westerns produced since World War II --- in fact, probably
       the best recent study of the Western."
       -- Journal of the West
     "Recommended for the
       student of film and the hardcore film buff. The rest of you will be surprised,
       delighted, perhaps even angered by some of the conclusions Lenihan has
       come to."
       -- Film World
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