International westerns : re-locating the frontier /
This collection of essays examines non-American Westerns and explores their significance, meanings, and reception. These essays also look at how Hollywood sensibilities are reflected, distorted, or challenged by filmmakers of Westerns in Europe, Australia, and other regions outside the U.S.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Scarecrow Press, Incorporated,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I DUELING INDUSTRIES
- ch. One The Ghosts of Modernization: Landscape, Time, and the West in Once upon a Time in Anatolia / Gozde Kilic
- ch. Two On the Spatial Ideology of Turkish Cinema (The West as "Outside"): Reading Seyyit Han as Western / Ali F. Sengul
- ch. Three The Only Good Indian Is a DEFA Indian: East German Variations on the Most American of All Genres / Franz A. Birgel
- ch. Four (Dis)Respecting Winnetou: Comedy Aesthetics and the De-Re-Construction of the German Western's Cultural Memory / Matthias Stork
- pt. II PARODIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
- ch. Five Visions of the West in Lucky Luke Comics: From Cliche to Critique / Pierre LaGayette
- ch. Six Comedy, Capitalism, and Kolaloka: Adapting the American West in Lemonade Joe (1964) / Cynthia J. Miller
- ch. Seven Upsetting the Genre's Gender Stereotypes: Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956) and the British Out West / Lee Broughton.
- Ch. Eight Tough Guys of the Prairie: The Danish Potato Westerns / Isak Thorsen
- pt. III THE WESTERN HERO DECONSTRUCTED
- ch. Nine Into the West: The Frontier in Ireland's Celtic Tiger Cinema / Liam Burke
- ch. Ten El Topo: Cult Film Phenomenon or Epic Western? / Michael T. Marsden
- ch. Eleven "You Got the Wrong Fin' Black Man!" The Indigenous Experience in the Australian Western / Daniel Eisenberg
- ch. Twelve The Self-Exiled Hero: Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time / Michael C. Reiff
- pt. IV SOCIAL BANDITS AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
- ch. Thirteen O Cangaceiro (1953) and the Brazilian Northeastern: The Western "in the Land of the Sun" / W.D. Phillips
- ch. Fourteen "They Sing Songs about Us Here": Outlaw Figures in Hungarian Westerns of the 1970s / Sonja Simonyi
- ch. Fifteen Reading Dost-Dushman: Popular Cinema, Cultural Translation, and Remaking the American Western in South Asia / Zakir Hossain Raju.
- Ch. Sixteen Italian D.O.C.: American Cowboys, Malaysian Pirates, and the Italian Construction of Other-ed Adventurers in Film / Alizo S. Wong
- pt. V UNEXPECTED ROOTS
- ch. Seventeen Western Films through German Eyes: Themes of Departure and Arrival / Heike Endter
- ch. Eighteen Wessex Goes West: From Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge to Michael Winterbottom's The Claim / Thomas Prasch
- ch. Nineteen "The East Is a Delicate Matter": White Sun of the Desert and the Soviet Western / Vincent Bohlinger
- ch. Twenty The Sword and the Six-Shooter: Sukiyaki Western Django and the Universality of the Western / A. Bowdoin Van Riper.