Critical perspectives on the Western : from A fistful of dollars to Django unchained /
The Western film continues to be reexamined by scholars, and this collection offers engaging essays on a variety of films and television shows that represent the genre. Essays in this volume consider star/celebrity studies, the representation of race, overviews of Western subgenres, and internationa...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2016]
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| Series: | Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Lee Broughton
- Section I: Thematic groupings, overlooked clusters, and hybrid collectivities
- Zapata-spaghetti: reflections on the Italian Western and the Mexican Revolution / Christopher Frayling
- The fantastic frontier: sixguns and spectacle in the hybrid Western / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
- Gunfight at the Transvaal Highveld: locating the Boerewors Western in Southern Africa / Ivo Ritzer
- Rethinking the representation of race and gender in American exploitation Westerns from the 1960s / Lee Broughton
- Section II: Historical celebrities, Western stars, and hard-boiled authors
- Contemporary obsession with the inexplicable nature of evil as expressed in The assassination of Jesse James by the coward, Robert Ford / John White
- A cop in a cowboy hat: Timothy Olyphant, a postmodern Eastwood in Justified / Jenny Barrett
- "Going blood-simple": red harvest in film / Jesús Ángel González
- Section III: Twenty-first century Westerns
- A solitary theme song From a twenty-first century Western / Pete Falconer
- "The unheightened moment": work, duration, and women's point-of-view in Meek's cutoff / Timothy Hughes
- Glorious basterds in Tarantino's Django Unchained: when the West crosses the South / Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
- Section IV: International Westerns
- Cross-cultural hybridity and the Western: Tears of the black tiger / Thomas Klein
- Thawing out the frozen limits / Geoff Mann
- "Spaghetti savages": the cinematic perversions of Django kill / Mark Goodall.
