Transnationalism and Imperialism - Endurance of the Global Western Film

-- This book redefines American productions of the Western genre as an expression of a transnational ideology and culture of imperialism. Reviewers agree that this collection offers the most impressive sampling of the vast number of global Westerns produced from the silent era to the present day, compared to other publications in recent years on the Western. -- IUP is a leading publisher in areas of film and media studies related to this book including early and silent film, national cinemas, and Italian and French film. This fulfills a goal outlined in IUP's strategic plan to bring an international scope to the discipline. -- The audience is scholarly and the book is highly likely to be recommended as a library purchase. It will reach scholars and students studying the Western genre, critical film theory, and the cultural history of colonialism and imperialism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction, by Hervé Mayer and David Roche

Part I: US-American Westerns from a Transnational Perspective

1. Transnationalism on the Transcontinental Railroad: John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924), by Patrick Adamson

2. John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy (1948-1950): Caught Between US-American Imperialism and Irish Republicanism, by Costanza Salvi

3. Decentering the National in Hollywood: Transnational Storytelling in the Mexico Western Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954), by Hervé Mayer

4. Transnational Identity on the Contemporary Texan-Mexican Border in Tejano (David Blue Garcia, 2018), by Marine Soubeille

Part II: European Westerns and the Critique of Imperialism

5. A Yugoslav "Lemon Tree in Siberia": The Partisan Western Kapetan Leši (Živorad Mitrovic, 1960), by Dragan Batancev

6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) and the Western: Reframing the Imperialist Hero, by Hadrien Fontanaud

7. Unwanted Salvation: The Use of the Savior Formula in The Dark Valley (Andreas Prochaska, 2014), by Marek Paryz

8. Transnational Post-Westerns in French Cinema: Adieu Gary (Nassim Amaouche, 2009) and Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain, 2015), by Jesús Ángel González

Spotlight on the Italian Western

9. Silent Westerns Made in Italy: The Dawn of a Transnational Genre between US Imperial Narratives and Nationalistic Appropriations, by Alessandra Magrin Haas

10. Where the Classical, the Transnational and the Acid Western Meet: Matalo! (Cesare Canevari, 1970), Violence and Cultural Resistance on the Spaghetti Western Frontier, by Lee Broughton

Part III: Westerns in a Post-Colonial or Post-Empire Context

11. West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil, by Mike Phillips

12. (Not) John Wayne & (Not) the US-American West: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014), by Jenny Barrett

13. Remaking the Western in Japanese Cinema: East Meets West (Kihachi Okamoto, 1995), Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007), and Unforgiven (San-il Lee, 2013), by Vivian P. Y. Lee

14. The South African Frontier in Five Fingers for Marseilles (Michael Matthews, 2017), by Claire Dutriaux and Annael Le Poullennec

Spotlight on the Australian Western

15. "They like all pictures which remind them of their own": The 'Entangled' Development of Australian Westerns, by Emma Hamilton

16. Westerns from an Aboriginal Point of View or Why the Australian Western (Still) Matters: The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002) and Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017), by David Roche

Coda: We Will Not Ride Off into the Sunset, by Hervé Mayer and David Roche

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Hervé Mayer is Assistant Professor of American studies and cinema in Montpellier, France. He is author of Guerre sauvage & empire de la liberté (Savage war and empire of liberty) and La Construction de l'Ouest américain dans le cinéma hollywoodien (The construction of the American West in Hollywood cinema) and has published several articles about the Western and the politics of US cinema.
David Roche is Professor of film studies in Montpellier, France. He is author of Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction and Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?. He is editor (with Cristelle Maury) of Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Herve Mayer, Hervé Mayer, Herve Roche Mayer, David Roche
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780253060747
• ISBN: 978-0-253-06074-7
• Seiten: 318
• Serien: New Directions in National Cinemas; New Directions in National Cin; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett