{"product_id":"9781785780981","title":"The 50 Greatest Westerns","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Barry Stone has served his apprenticeship as a western movie geek and aficionado. \u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Red River\u003c\/i\u003e — for 50 years the western has been the only genre in a life that ‘just ain’t big enough for two.’ He has written on the history of cinema for the illustrated reference book \u003ci\u003eHistorica,\u003c\/i\u003e is a regular attendee to western premieres for FOX Studios Australia, and was recently a guest of the Museum of Western Film History in Independence, California.\u003cp\u003eIntrigued by the idea of frontier wilderness, of law and order versus lawlessness, and a firm belief that ‘the better the bad guy, the better the film,’ he goes beyond the American Southwest to pay homage to the Italian and even Australian western — and, after much deliberation, he ranks them in order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Icon Books, Ltd. UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052930384112,"sku":"9781785780981","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785780981_p0.jpg?v=1763728205","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785780981","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}