{"product_id":"state-fare-an-irreverent-guide-to-texas-movies-9780875653679","title":"State Fare: ....an Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies","description":"From the earliest days of film, Texas and its colorful history offered promising story lines comprised of heroes, images, lore, and legend that filmmakers could return to again and again. And so they did in films about the Alamo, the Texas Rangers, the ubiquitous cowboy and the trail drives, big ranchers, and bigger wildcatters. With the advent of the Talkies, Texas movies continued to be a staple of Hollywood backlot productions, mainly in the form of B Westerns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the golden age of Texas cinema--dating from the end of World War II to the assassination of JFK--the Western continued to be the predominant genre. A roll call of the most notable Texas movies would include \u003ci\u003eRed River, Giant\u003c\/i\u003e (probably the single most influential Texas movie of all), \u003ci\u003eThe Searchers, Hud\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Picture Show\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe reader is invited to return to those thrilling days of yesteryear as well as to consider the most recent cinematic efforts to capture one of the nation's most mythologized places. After a brief overview of Texas in the movies, the book offers detailed commentary on the most important, the most interesting, or, in a few cases, the most wretched films about the Lone Star State.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon Graham is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including \u003ci\u003eCowboys and Cadillacs: How \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Looks at \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTexas\u003c\/i\u003e (1983); \u003ci\u003eNo Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e (1989); \u003ci\u003eGiant Country: Essays on Texas\u003c\/i\u003e (1998); and \u003ci\u003eKings of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTexas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). In 2003 Graham edited \u003ci\u003eLone Star Literature: From the Red River to the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRio Grande\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 2007, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Austin\u003c\/i\u003e (TCU Press). Graham has lived in Austin since the late 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Texas Christian University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330172391698,"sku":"9780875653679","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8491faee-1866-4f7b-8eb1-49753710dbed.jpg?v=1727794320","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/state-fare-an-irreverent-guide-to-texas-movies-9780875653679","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}