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International Westerns
Re-Locating the Frontier
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2013
Summary
The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired films have played a part in the output of numerous national film traditions, including Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
In International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the significance and meanings of these films, their roots in other media, and their reception in the national industries which gave them form. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: What do Westerns not made in the U.S. reveal? In what ways do they challenge or support the idea of national literatures and cinemas? How do these films negotiate nation, narrative, and genre? Divided into five sections, the twenty essays in this volume look at films from a wide range of national cinemas, such as France (The Adventures of Lucky Luke), Germany (Der Schuh des Maitu), Brazil (O Cangaceiro), Eastern Europe (Lemonade Joe), and of course, Asia (Sukiyaki Western Django).
Featuring contributions from a diverse group of international scholars—often writing about Westerns adapted to their own national traditions—these essays address such matters as competing national film traditions, various forms of satire and comedy based on the Western tradition, the range of cultural adaptations of the traditional Western hero, the ties between the nation-state and the outlaw, and Westerns in a variety of unanticipated guises. Representing a broader look at global Westerns than any other single volume to date—and featuring more than 70 illustrations—International Westerns will be of interest to scholars of film, popular culture, and cultural history.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-9287-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-9288-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
448
Product type
Edited Book
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CONTENTS No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
INTRODUCTION No access
Ch01. THE GHOSTS OF MODERNIZATION No access
Ch02. ON THE SPATIAL IDEOLOGY OF TURKISH CINEMA (THE WEST AS “OUTSIDE”) No access
Ch03. THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEFA INDIAN No access
Ch04. (DIS)RESPECTING WINNETOU No access
Ch05. VISIONS OF THE WEST IN LUCKY LUKE COMICS No access
Ch06. COMEDY, CAPITALISM, AND KOLALOKA No access
Ch07. UPSETTING THE GENRE’S GENDER STEREOTYPES No access
Ch08. TOUGH GUYS OF THE PRAIRIE No access
Ch09. INTO THE WEST No access
Ch10. EL TOPO No access
Ch11. “YOU GOT THE WRONG F***IN’ BLACK MAN!” No access
Ch12. THE SELF-EXILED HERO No access
Ch13. O CANGACEIRO (1953) AND THE BRAZILIAN NORTHEASTERN No access
Ch14. “THEY SING SONGS ABOUT US HERE” No access
Ch15. READING DOST-DUSHMAN No access
Ch16. ITALIAN D.O.C. No access
Ch17. WESTERN FILMS THROUGH GERMAN EYES No access
Ch18. WESSEX GOES WEST No access
Ch19. “THE EAST IS A DELICATE MATTER” No access
Ch20. THE SWORD AND THE SIX-SHOOTER No access
INDEX No access Pages 417 - 440
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS No access Pages 441 - 448
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