The five Cs of Arizonamdash;copper; cattle; cotton; citrus; and climatemdash;formed the basis of the statersquo;s livelihood and a readymade roster of subjects for films. With an eye on the developing national appetite for all things western; Charles and Lucile Herbert founded Western Ways Features in 1936 to document the landscape; regional development; and diverse cultures of Arizona; the U.S. Southwest; and northern Mexico.Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest of the imagination. Active during a thirty-year period of profound growth and transformation; the Herberts created a dynamic visual record of the region; and their archival films now serve as a time capsule of the Sunbelt in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing upon a ten-year career with Fox; Western Ways owner-operator Charles Herbert brought a newshoundrsquo;s sensibility and acute skill at in-camera editing to his southwestern subjects. The Western Ways films provided counternarratives to Hollywood representations of the West and established the regional identity of Tucson and the borderlands.Jennifer L. Jenkinsrsquo;s broad-sweeping book examines the Herbertsrsquo; work on some of the first sound films in the Arizona borderlands and their ongoing promotion of the Southwest. The book covers the filmic representation of Native and Mexican lifeways; Anglo ranching and leisure; Mexican missions and tourism; and postwar borderlands prosperity and progressivism. The story of Western Ways closely follows the boom-and-bust arc of the midcentury Southwest and the constantly evolving representations of an exoticmdash;but safe and domesticatedmdash;frontier.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Arsene Lupin. the anti-Sherlock HolmesBy AudeKhatruExcellent. but remember it is in French. I had just read one of the Arsene Lupin books in English and found this French addition of another book. I have not had so much fun reading anything in years.Arsene Lupin is from roughly the same time as Sherlock Holmes. maybe just slightly later. as cars are often involved in the stories. He is a gentleman burglar who only robs the rich and usually those who have something they do not deserve and did not earn.The stories are outrageous and loads of fun2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Two starsBy ObsrvrI dont recall what I paid for this. Im sure it was very reasonable. and it arrived quickly.This is some kind of reprint done in U.S.. not France. Many words not properly separated. They run together.7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A great "detective" storyBy Robert H. BuckleyBecause I have family in France I enjoy reading Arsene Lupin. the fictional French second storey man and dashing jewel thief.Maurice Leblancs novels are a literary precursor to Simenons Maigret (in the sparingvocabulary and use of language). Certainly whoever dreamed up the Pink Panther had read Leblanc the night before. ML even has a clumsy detective who never quite gets his man. He was an admirer of Doyles Sherlock Holmes. who is featured in a couple of Lupin stories. Despite their age. Leblancs books are still very popular. in print and widely sold in french bookstores.If you REALLY like Lupin. sells only a few of the novels for Kindle. but they are almost all downloadable free from Gutenberg.
