Critical perspectives on the Western
Subtitle: from A fistful of dollars to Django unchained
By: edited by Lee Broughton
Series: Film and history; Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781442272422
Subjects: Western films; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lee Broughton; title: Section I: Thematic groupings, overlooked clusters, and hybrid collectivities; title: Zapata-spaghetti: reflections on the Italian Western and the Mexican Revolution / Christopher Frayling; title: The fantastic frontier: sixguns and spectacle in the hybrid Western / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper; title: Gunfight at the Transvaal Highveld: locating the Boerewors Western in Southern Africa / Ivo Ritzer; title: Rethinking the representation of race and gender in American exploitation Westerns from the 1960s / Lee Broughton; title: Section II: Historical celebrities, Western stars, and hard-boiled authors; title: Contemporary obsession with the inexplicable nature of evil as expressed in The assassination of Jesse James by the coward, Robert Ford / John White; title: A cop in a cowboy hat: Timothy Olyphant, a postmodern Eastwood in Justified / Jenny Barrett; title: "Going blood-simple": red harvest in film / Jesús Ángel González; title: Section III: Twenty-first century Westerns; title: A solitary theme song From a twenty-first century Western / Pete Falconer; title: "The unheightened moment": work, duration, and women's point-of-view in Meek's cutoff / Timothy Hughes; title: Glorious basterds in Tarantino's Django Unchained: when the West crosses the South / Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris; title: Section IV: International Westerns; title: Cross-cultural hybridity and the Western: Tears of the black tiger / Thomas Klein; title: Thawing out the frozen limits / Geoff Mann; title: "Spaghetti savages": the cinematic perversions of Django kill / Mark Goodall.