Johnny Guitar
$34.25
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
The first book on the groundbreaking 1954 Western by director Nicholas Ray, controversial in its time, now celebrated as a groundbreaking example of high camp, LGBTQ themes, and the outer limits of the Hollywood system.
What to make of Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray’s high-drama psychological Western from 1954? The film met with a mixed reception on its release but over the years has assumed cult status in some circles, with some critics now citing it among the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780826369642 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0826369642 |
| Author: | Brooks E. Hefner |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Reel West Series |
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Critics Review
“Brooks E. Hefner’s Johnny Guitar is a groundbreaking study of Nicholas Ray’s notoriously groundbreaking Western—highly recommended.” – W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film
About The Author
Brooks E. Hefner
Brooks E. Hefner is a professor of English at James Madison University, where he teaches American genre fiction, film history, and popular film genres. He is the author of Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow and The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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