Reframing cult Westerns: from "The magnificent seven" to "The hateful eight"

"This carefully curated collection focuses on a wide range of post-classical era cult Westerns from around the world, offering new critical insights into key films belonging to this important and enduring film genre"--

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Weitere Verfasser: Broughton, Lee 1966- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2020
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Zusammenfassung:"This carefully curated collection focuses on a wide range of post-classical era cult Westerns from around the world, offering new critical insights into key films belonging to this important and enduring film genre"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index
Introduction: Cult Westerns and cult films / Lee Broughton -- "It seemed like a good idea at the time" : Hollywood, homology and hired guns -- the making of The magnificent seven / Paul Kerr -- The historical accuracy of Sergio Leone's The good, the bad and the ugly / Peter J. Hanley -- Where white men dream out loud : Robert Altman's West / Cynthia J. Miller -- The gold rush : the new right and the Westerns of 1980 / Craig Ian Mann -- Landscape, imagery and symbolism in Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo / Matt Melia -- Dancing with death : Whity, a singular Western / Hamish Ford -- Man of the West : Dean Reed's (cinematic) frontier personas in Blood brothers and Sing, cowboy, sing! / Sonja Simonyi -- An(Other) West : the limits of national identity in the proposition / Chelsea Wessels -- The return of the repressed : locating the supernatural in US Civil War Westerns / Lee Broughton -- Stranger and friend : non-American Westerns and the immigrant in the twenty-first century / Jenny Barrett -- The intrusion of climate in The revenant / Jack Weatherston -- "Hand in hand we'll get there" -- the racial politics of The hateful eight / Thomas Moodie
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 261 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9781501343520
9781501343506
9781501343513
DOI:10.5040/9781501343520

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