Shooting Stars of the Small Screen: Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors (1946-Present)

Austin: University of Texas Press. Near Fine. 2009. First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean as-new copy, the only blemish being a barely-noticeable soft diagonal crease at the upper corner of the rear cover]. (Ellen and Edward Randall Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or played a recurring character role in a TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to 2008. [The author] covers the highlights of each actor's career to give a full sense of the actor's screen persona(s). Within the entries are discussions of scores of popular Western TV shows that explore how these programs both reflected and impacted the social world in which they aired. [He] opens the encyclopedia with a fascinating history of the TV Western that traces its roots in B Western movies, while also showing how TV Westerns developed their own unique storytelling conventions." .