Critical perspectives on the Western : from A fistful of dollars to Django unchained /
Critical perspectives on the Western : from A fistful of dollars to Django unchained /
edited by Lee Broughton.
- Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
- Film and history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Section I: Thematic groupings, overlooked clusters, and hybrid collectivities -- Zapata-spaghetti: reflections on the Italian Western and the Mexican Revolution / The fantastic frontier: sixguns and spectacle in the hybrid Western / Gunfight at the Transvaal Highveld: locating the Boerewors Western in Southern Africa / Rethinking the representation of race and gender in American exploitation Westerns from the 1960s / 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 / A cop in a cowboy hat: Timothy Olyphant, a postmodern Eastwood in Justified / "Going blood-simple": red harvest in film / Section III: Twenty-first century Westerns -- A solitary theme song From a twenty-first century Western / "The unheightened moment": work, duration, and women's point-of-view in Meek's cutoff / Glorious basterds in Tarantino's Django Unchained: when the West crosses the South / Section IV: International Westerns -- Cross-cultural hybridity and the Western: Tears of the black tiger / Thawing out the frozen limits / "Spaghetti savages": the cinematic perversions of Django kill / Lee Broughton -- Christopher Frayling -- Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Ivo Ritzer -- Lee Broughton -- John White -- Jenny Barrett -- Jesús Ángel González -- Pete Falconer -- Timothy Hughes -- Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris -- Thomas Klein -- Geoff Mann -- Mark Goodall.
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 international Westerns. In all, this collection provides a diverse selection of chapters that represent current thinking on this enduring genre.
2016035510
Western films--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .C758 2016
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Section I: Thematic groupings, overlooked clusters, and hybrid collectivities -- Zapata-spaghetti: reflections on the Italian Western and the Mexican Revolution / The fantastic frontier: sixguns and spectacle in the hybrid Western / Gunfight at the Transvaal Highveld: locating the Boerewors Western in Southern Africa / Rethinking the representation of race and gender in American exploitation Westerns from the 1960s / 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 / A cop in a cowboy hat: Timothy Olyphant, a postmodern Eastwood in Justified / "Going blood-simple": red harvest in film / Section III: Twenty-first century Westerns -- A solitary theme song From a twenty-first century Western / "The unheightened moment": work, duration, and women's point-of-view in Meek's cutoff / Glorious basterds in Tarantino's Django Unchained: when the West crosses the South / Section IV: International Westerns -- Cross-cultural hybridity and the Western: Tears of the black tiger / Thawing out the frozen limits / "Spaghetti savages": the cinematic perversions of Django kill / Lee Broughton -- Christopher Frayling -- Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Ivo Ritzer -- Lee Broughton -- John White -- Jenny Barrett -- Jesús Ángel González -- Pete Falconer -- Timothy Hughes -- Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris -- Thomas Klein -- Geoff Mann -- Mark Goodall.
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 international Westerns. In all, this collection provides a diverse selection of chapters that represent current thinking on this enduring genre.
2016035510
Western films--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .C758 2016