Critical perspectives on the Western from A fistful of dollars to Django unchained / edited by Lee Broughton.
| Other author | Broughton, Lee, 1966- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Film and history |
| Contents | Introduction / Lee Broughton -- Section I: Thematic groupings, overlooked clusters, and hybrid collectivities -- Zapata-spaghetti: reflections on the Italian Western and the Mexican Revolution / Christopher Frayling -- The fantastic frontier: sixguns and spectacle in the hybrid Western / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Gunfight at the Transvaal Highveld: locating the Boerewors Western in Southern Africa / Ivo Ritzer -- Rethinking the representation of race and gender in American exploitation Westerns from the 1960s / Lee Broughton -- Section II: Historical celebrities, Western stars, and hard-boiled authors -- Contemporary obsession with the inexplicable nature of evil as expressed in The assassination of Jesse James by the coward, Robert Ford / John White -- A cop in a cowboy hat: Timothy Olyphant, a postmodern Eastwood in Justified / Jenny Barrett -- "Going blood-simple": red harvest in film / Jesús Ángel González -- Section III: Twenty-first century Westerns -- A solitary theme song From a twenty-first century Western / Pete Falconer -- "The unheightened moment": work, duration, and women's point-of-view in Meek's cutoff / Timothy Hughes -- Glorious basterds in Tarantino's Django Unchained: when the West crosses the South / Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris -- Section IV: International Westerns -- Cross-cultural hybridity and the Western: Tears of the black tiger / Thomas Klein -- Thawing out the frozen limits / Geoff Mann -- "Spaghetti savages": the cinematic perversions of Django kill / Mark Goodall. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Critical perspectives on the Western Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] 9781442272422 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016035510 |
| ISBN | 9781442272439 (electronic) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |