LEADER 03505nam 2200505 450 001 9910798775203321 005 20230808195038.0 010 $a1-4422-7243-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000842410 035 $a(EBL)4659835 035 $a(OCoLC)954720053 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16550454 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15069923 035 $a(PQKB)25179471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4659835 035 $a(DLC) 2016035510 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000842410 100 $a20160910h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCritical perspectives on the Western $efrom A fistful of dollars to Django unchained /$fedited by Lee Broughton 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cRowman & Littlefield,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aFilm and History 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4422-7242-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntroduction / 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 / Jesu?s A?ngel Gonza?lez -- 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. 330 $aThe Western film continues to be reexamined by scholars, and this collection offers engaging essays on a variety of films and television shows that represent the genre. Essays in this volume consider star/celebrity studies, the representation of race, overviews of Western subgenres, and international Westerns. In all, this collection provides a diverse selection of chapters that represent current thinking on this enduring genre. 410 0$aFilm and history (Lanham, Md.) 606 $aWestern films$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aWestern films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.43/65878 702 $aBroughton$b Lee 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798775203321 996 $aCritical perspectives on the Western$93738273 997 $aUNINA