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Critical perspectives on the Western

from A fistful of dollars to Django unchained

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English
Pages
230

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Film and history, Film and history (Lanham, Md.)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/65878
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.W4 C75 2016, PN1995.9.W4C75 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 230 pages
Number of pages
230

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27226705M
Internet Archive
criticalperspect0000unse_p2k4
ISBN 10
1442272422
ISBN 13
9781442272422
LCCN
2016023193
OCLC/WorldCat
951506425

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Work ID
OL20046679W

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