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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hervé Mayer , David Roche , Patrick Adamson , Costanza SalviPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Weight: 0.640kg ISBN: 9780253060747ISBN 10: 0253060745 Pages: 318 Publication Date: 05 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction, by Hervé Mayer and David Roche Part I: US-American Westerns from a Transnational Perspective 1. Transnationalism on the Transcontinental Railroad: John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924), by Patrick Adamson 2. John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy (1948-1950): Caught Between US-American Imperialism and Irish Republicanism, by Costanza Salvi 3. Decentering the National in Hollywood: Transnational Storytelling in the Mexico Western Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954), by Hervé Mayer 4. Transnational Identity on the Contemporary Texan-Mexican Border in Tejano (David Blue Garcia, 2018), by Marine Soubeille Part II: European Westerns and the Critique of Imperialism 5. A Yugoslav ""Lemon Tree in Siberia"": The Partisan Western Kapetan Leši (Živorad Mitrović, 1960), by Dragan Batančev 6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) and the Western: Reframing the Imperialist Hero, by Hadrien Fontanaud 7. Unwanted Salvation: The Use of the Savior Formula in The Dark Valley (Andreas Prochaska, 2014), by Marek Paryż 8. Transnational Post-Westerns in French Cinema: Adieu Gary (Nassim Amaouche, 2009) and Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain, 2015), by Jesús Ángel González Spotlight on the Italian Western 9. Silent Westerns Made in Italy: The Dawn of a Transnational Genre between US Imperial Narratives and Nationalistic Appropriations, by Alessandra Magrin Haas 10. Where the Classical, the Transnational and the Acid Western Meet: Matalo! (Cesare Canevari, 1970), Violence and Cultural Resistance on the Spaghetti Western Frontier, by Lee Broughton Part III: Westerns in a Post-Colonial or Post-Empire Context 11. West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil, by Mike Phillips 12. (Not) John Wayne & (Not) the US-American West: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014), by Jenny Barrett 13. Remaking the Western in Japanese Cinema: East Meets West (Kihachi Okamoto, 1995), Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007), and Unforgiven (San-il Lee, 2013), by Vivian P. Y. Lee 14. The South African Frontier in Five Fingers for Marseilles (Michael Matthews, 2017), by Claire Dutriaux and Annael Le Poullennec Spotlight on the Australian Western 15. ""They like all pictures which remind them of their own"": The 'Entangled' Development of Australian Westerns, by Emma Hamilton 16. Westerns from an Aboriginal Point of View or Why the Australian Western (Still) Matters: The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002) and Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017), by David Roche Coda: We Will Not Ride Off into the Sunset, by Hervé Mayer and David Roche Index"ReviewsThis edited volume is transnational in scope, demonstrating how filmmakers have used the Western genre to confront the ideologies of imperialism and colonization in various locations and periods. It is a detailed and comparative study of individual films, and an important contribution towards understanding the continuing vitality of the Western.--Stephen Teo Kian Teck, author of Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood This is a timely, dizzying mix of powerful and well-researched explorations of the Western as a potent, transnational and worlding genre.--Neil Campbell, author of The Rhizomatic West, Post-Westerns, and Worlding the Western """This edited volume is transnational in scope, demonstrating how filmmakers have used the Western genre to confront the ideologies of imperialism and colonization in various locations and periods. It is a detailed and comparative study of individual films, and an important contribution towards understanding the continuing vitality of the Western.""—Stephen Teo Kian Teck, author of Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood ""This is a timely, dizzying mix of powerful and well-researched explorations of the Western as a potent, transnational and worlding genre.""—Neil Campbell, author of The Rhizomatic West, Post-Westerns, and Worlding the Western" This edited volume is transnational in scope, demonstrating how filmmakers have used the Western genre to confront the ideologies of imperialism and colonization in various locations and periods. It is a detailed and comparative study of individual films, and an important contribution towards understanding the continuing vitality of the Western. -Stephen Teo Kian Teck, author of Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood This is a timely, dizzying mix of powerful and well-researched explorations of the Western as a potent, transnational and worlding genre. -Neil Campbell, author of The Rhizomatic West, Post-Westerns, and Worlding the Western Author InformationHervé Mayer is Assistant Professor of American studies and cinema in Montpellier, France. He is author of Guerre sauvage & empire de la liberté (Savage war and empire of liberty) and La Construction de l'Ouest américain dans le cinéma hollywoodien (The construction of the American West in Hollywood cinema) and has published several articles about the Western and the politics of US cinema. David Roche is Professor of film studies in Montpellier, France. He is author of Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction and Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?. He is editor (with Cristelle Maury) of Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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