The Western in the global South / Edited by MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz.
| Other author | Higgins, MaryEllen, 1967- |
| Other author | Keresztesi, Rita. |
| Other author | Oscherwitz, Dayna, 1970- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. |
| Description | xx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge Advances in Film Studies |
| Contents | Introduction -- Colonial circulations of the western in the global south. The western in colonial Southern Africa / James Burns -- Cassava westerns: theorizing the pleasures of playing the outlaw in Africa / Tsitsi Jaji -- The Italian (southern) western: from colonial cinema to spaghetti western / Giovanna Trento -- From Django to Django unchained: love narratives in the global south / Clifford T. Manlove -- The western in sub-saharan Africa and the Caribbean. In the crossfire: Africa, cinema, and violence in Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako / Dayna Oscherwitz -- Trashing the Western's revenge narrative in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt / MaryEllen Higgins -- Cowboys and West Indians: decolonizing the western and Perry Henzell's The harder they come / Rita Keresztesi -- The western in Australia and Asia. Aboriginal cowboys on the possibilities of the western in Australia's far west / Andrew W. Hurley -- Tears of the black tiger: the western and Thai cinema / Jesus Jimenez-Varea and Milagros Exposito-Barea -- Tamil B movie westerns: the global south and genre subversion / Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai -- South American, Mexican and borderlands westerns. An "imperfect" genre: rethinking politics in Latin American westerns / Chelsea Wessels -- Landscaping the western: Ciro Guerra's The wind journeys / Carlos G. Torres-Rodriguez -- Carlos Bolado's Bajo California: crossing borders and dislocating the western tradition / Carolina Rueda -- Disinterring the western in Three burials of Melquiades Estrada and No country for old men / Brent Strang. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014046525 |
| ISBN | 9781138843127 (hbk) |
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