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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Broughton, Lee, 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Colección:Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
Temas:
Western films > History and criticism.
Westerns > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Western films
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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