Stone Male: Requiem for the Living Picture

The Western transplanted Greek nostos to the new world where an American hero stepped out from the chorus as the first filmmakers left New Jersey and Chicago for Colorado, Texas, and finally Hollywood, California. Carducci has worked on Stone Male since the 1990 publication of his rewrite of rock and roll history, Rock and the Pop Narcotic. Now he traces the development of action-film Acting after the Western-makers went west. The realism of late 19th century filmed Actualities continued into these Westerns of the 1910s which featured cowboys and Indians born before the closing of the frontier in 1890. Their untheatrical style of acting developed further within the 2nd unit culture of the action genres in the sound era via John Wayne and others, until a Montgomery Clift took training from stuntman Richard Farnsworth for "Red River", and a Marlon Brando spent his downtime on "One-Eyed Jacks" studying his co-star Ben Johnson. Finally Carducci looks at the cultural collision of the sixtie