TY  - BOOK
AU  - Broughton,Lee
TI  - Critical perspectives on the Western: from A fistful of dollars to Django unchained 
T2  - Film and history
AV  - PN1995 .C758 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman and Littlefield
KW  - Western films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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