| Collation |
xvi, 230 pages ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Film and history |
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Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Western films -- History and criticism.
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Western films. fast (OCoLC)fst01174006 |
| Alt Author |
Broughton, Lee, 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442272422 |
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1442272422 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
40026455313 |
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