Brooks E. Hefner

About The Author

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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Reel West Series

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Books by Brooks E. Hefner

Johnny Guitar

By Brooks E. Hefner

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.

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