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This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television commercials, the contributors seek to account for the appeal and currency of the film Western today.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors Introduction; Marek Paryz PART I: THE WESTERN 'AT HOME': DIALOGUES WITH THE TRADITION 1. 'Is There Actually Any Jiménez?': Believing as Seeing in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; Lee Clark Mitchell 2. 'You Must Pay for Everything in This World One Way or Another': True Grit and the Economics of Justice; Martin Holtz 3. A Spaghetti Southern: Django Unchained; Rob Kroes 4. Who Was That Masked Man? Conception and Reception in The Lone Ranger; Shelley Armitage PART II: THE WESTERN 'ABROAD': TRANSNATIONAL VARIATIONS 5. 'Crossing the Beast': American Identity and Frontier Mythology in Sin Nombre; Matthew Carter 6. Wild West in the Mild West: Reading the Canadian Anti-Western through The Englishman's Boy; David Stirrup 7. 'Australia. What Fresh Hell Is This?': Conceptualizing the Australian Western in The Proposition; Emma Hamilton 8. Staging the 'Wild Wild East': Decoding the Western in East Asian Films; Vivian P. Y. Lee PART III: THE WESTERN 'OUT THERE': THE ALLURE OF THE FANTASTIC 9. Decolonizing the Western: A Revisionist Analysis of Avatar with a Twist; M. Elise Marubbio 10. The Post-Apocalyptic Western as a Bookish Genre: The Book of Eli's Vision of an Archival Future; Andrew S. Gross 11. The War on Terror and Intersecting Film Genres in Jonah Hex; Marek Paryz PART IV: THE WESTERN 'ELSEWHERE': CLASSIC INSPIRATIONS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 12. Avant-Garde and Experimental Westerns: The Frontier at the Limits of the Moving Image; Alexandra Keller 13. 'The Faces May Change, the Names, but They're There, Now and Fifty Years from Now': Conflations of Cold War Westerns in the Post-9/11 USAF Recruitment Commercials; Józef Jaskulski Index
About the author
John R. Leo, University of Rhode Island, USA
Marek Paryz, University of Warsaw, Poland
Shelley Armitage, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Matthew Carter, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Andrew S. Gross, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Emma Hamilton, University of Newcastle, Australia
Martin Holtz, Greifswald University
Józef Jaskulski, , University of Warsaw, Poland
Alexandra Keller, Smith College
Rob Kroes, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vivian P. Y. Lee, City University of Hong Kong
M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College, USA
Lee Clark Mitchell, Princeton University, USA
David Stirrup, University of Kent, UK
Summary
This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television commercials, the contributors seek to account for the appeal and currency of the film Western today.
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'This collection provides an intellectually rich and varied view of the modern condition of what is arguably cinema's oldest genre. American readers will be especially interested in the transnational understanding of the genre that carries their national myth. The introduction by Marek Paryz is theoretically sophisticated, historically astute, and provides an excellent framework for the collection.' - Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of American Studies Emeritus, Wesleyan University and author of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
'This collection is timely and relevant as the Western genre is always in need of new critical blood particularly in the current context of globalisation and transnationalism. The essays here are buzzing with original thinking and engaging, stimulating writing, which sets it apart from most other books in the field.' - Neil Campbell, Professor and Senior Research Fellow in American Studies, University of Derby and author of Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West
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'This collection provides an intellectually rich and varied view of the modern condition of what is arguably cinema's oldest genre. American readers will be especially interested in the transnational understanding of the genre that carries their national myth. The introduction by Marek Paryz is theoretically sophisticated, historically astute, and provides an excellent framework for the collection.' - Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of American Studies Emeritus, Wesleyan University and author of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
'This collection is timely and relevant as the Western genre is always in need of new critical blood particularly in the current context of globalisation and transnationalism. The essays here are buzzing with original thinking and engaging, stimulating writing, which sets it apart from most other books in the field.' - Neil Campbell, Professor and Senior Research Fellow in American Studies, University of Derby and author of Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West
