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Title: Critical Perspectives on the Western: From a Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained

Author(s)/Editor(s): Lee Broughton (editor)

Category/Series: Film and History
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 1442272422
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For decades, the Western film has been considered to be a dying cinematic form, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen have found new ways to reinvigorate the genre. As Westerns continue to be produced for contemporary audiences, scholars have taken a renewed interest in the relevance of this enduring genre. In Critical Perspectives on the Western, Lee Broughton has compiled a wide-ranging collection of essays by international scholars that look at various forms of the genre, on both the large and small screen. The contributors to this volume consider overlooked subgenres, Western stars, celebrities and authors, recent idiosyncratic engagements with the genre, and Westerns produced outside of the USA. These essays also explore issues relating to culture, politics, transnationalism, postcolonialism, race and gender that are found within the films under discussion. Among the themes, films and television programs covered in this volume are Mexican Revolution-set Westerns; South African Westerns; hybrid Westerns; exploitation Westerns; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward, Robert Ford; Deadwood and Justified; Red Harvest (A Fistful of Dollars, Yojimbo and La ciudad maldita); Appaloosa; Meek’s Cutoff; Django Unchained; Tears of the Black Tiger; The Frozen Limits; and Django Kill. The contributors are Sir Christopher Frayling, Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Ivo Ritzer, Lee Broughton, John White, Jenny Barrett, Jesus Angel Gonzalez, Pete Falconer, Timothy Hughes, Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris, Thomas Klein, Geoff Mann and Mark Goodall.

About the editor

Lee Broughton is a freelance writer, critic, film programmer and lecturer in film and cultural studies. His research on European Westerns has appeared in the collections Directory of World Cinema: Germany 2 (2013), Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (2014), International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier (2014), Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (2016) and Mapping Cinematics Norths (2016). He is the author of The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film (2016).

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-For decades, the Western film has been considered a dying breed of cinema, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen find new ways to reinvigorate the genre. As Westerns continue to be produced for contemporary audiences, scholars have taken a renewed interest in the relevance of this enduring genre. In Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained, Lee Broughton has compiled a wide-ranging collection of essays that look at various forms of the genre, on both the large and small screen. Contributors to this volume consider themes and subgenres, celebrities and authors, recent idiosyncratic engagements with the genre, and the international Western. These essays also explore issues of race and gender in the various films discussed as well as within the film genre as a whole. Among the films and television programs discussed in this volume are The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward, Robert Ford; Django Kill; Justified; and Red Harvest. Featuring a diverse selection of chapters that represent current thinking on the Western. Critical Perspectives on the Western will appeal to fans of the genre, film students, and scholars alike.
+For decades, the Western film has been considered to be a dying cinematic form, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen have found new ways to reinvigorate the genre. As Westerns continue to be produced for contemporary audiences, scholars have taken a renewed interest in the relevance of this enduring genre. In Critical Perspectives on the Western, Lee Broughton has compiled a wide-ranging collection of essays by international scholars that look at various forms of the genre, on both the large and small screen. The contributors to this volume consider overlooked subgenres, Western stars, celebrities and authors, recent idiosyncratic engagements with the genre, and Westerns produced outside of the USA. These essays also explore issues relating to culture, politics, transnationalism, postcolonialism, race and gender that are found within the films under discussion. Among the themes, films and television programs covered in this volume are Mexican Revolution-set Westerns; South African Westerns; hybrid Westerns; exploitation Westerns; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward, Robert Ford; Deadwood and Justified; Red Harvest (A Fistful of Dollars, Yojimbo and La ciudad maldita); Appaloosa; Meek’s Cutoff; Django Unchained; Tears of the Black Tiger; The Frozen Limits; and Django Kill. The contributors are Sir Christopher Frayling, Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Ivo Ritzer, Lee Broughton, John White, Jenny Barrett, Jesus Angel Gonzalez, Pete Falconer, Timothy Hughes, Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris, Thomas Klein, Geoff Mann and Mark Goodall.
-About the editor
-Lee Broughton is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds. His current research focuses on Italian Westerns and seeks to determine how and why these representations might differ to those found in American made Westerns. He has published a number of articles on the Western.
+'''About the editor'''
+Lee Broughton is a freelance writer, critic, film programmer and lecturer in film and cultural studies. His research on European Westerns has appeared in the collections Directory of World Cinema: Germany 2 (2013), Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (2014), International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier (2014), Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (2016) and Mapping Cinematics Norths (2016). He is the author of The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film (2016).
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