Wikipedia:WikiProject Westerns/Film/Sources

Lists in other projects
The general sources listed in the Film project are considered to be reliable. These can be especially helpful when looking for sources on contemporary works for which there may not be as much academic source availability.

For works that are television films, there is a list of sources that the Television Project has deemed to be reliable through consensus. Note that most of these will provide sources of reliable information on newer programming, such as Yellowstone, or Justified, but for mid-century classic Westerns, you'll have better luck with the sources noted below.

General Western films

 * Broughton, Lee (ed). Critical Perspectives on the Western : From a Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)


 * Carter, Matthew. Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)


 * Edgerton, Gary R. & Marsden, Michael T. eds. Westerns: The Essential Journal of Popular Film & Television Collection (Routledge, 2012)


 * McDonald, Archie P. Shooting stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film (Indiana University Press, 1987)


 * Matheson, Sue. The Westerns and War Films of John Ford (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)


 * Munn, Michael. John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth (Robson Books, 2004)


 * Parks, Rita. The Western Hero in Film and Television: Mass Media Mythology (UMI Research Press, 1982)


 * Sarf, Wayne Michael. God Bless You, Buffalo Bill: A Layman's Guide to History and the Western Film (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983)


 * Simmon, Scott. The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century (Cambridge University Press, 2003)


 * Verhoeff, Nanna. The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning (Amsterdam University Press, 2006)

Silent films

 * Langman, Larry A Guide to Silent Westerns (Greenwood Publishing, 1992)


 * The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921-1930

Other
Some of these encompass both film and television.
 * Rollins, Peter C. & O'Connor, John E. eds. Hollywood's West: the American frontier in film, television, and history (University Press of Kentucky, 2005)

Sources to be avoided
Any sites that are primarily user generated content and/or lack editorial oversight should be avoided. This includes IMDb, blu-ray.com, Fandom, Wikia, and others like them.