03505nam 2200505 450 991079877520332120230808195038.01-4422-7243-0(CKB)3710000000842410(EBL)4659835(OCoLC)954720053(PQKBManifestationID)16550454(PQKBWorkID)15069923(PQKB)25179471(MiAaPQ)EBC4659835(DLC) 2016035510(EXLCZ)99371000000084241020160910h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCritical perspectives on the Western from A fistful of dollars to Django unchained /edited by Lee BroughtonLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,2016.©20161 online resource (250 p.)Film and HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-4422-7242-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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.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.Film and history (Lanham, Md.)Western filmsHistory and criticismWestern filmsHistory and criticism.791.43/65878Broughton LeeMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798775203321Critical perspectives on the Western3738273UNINA