Reframing cult Westerns from The magnificent seven to The hateful eight / edited by Lee Broughton.
| Other author | Broughton, Lee, 1966- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. |
| Description | vi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019040275 |
| ISBN | 9781501343490 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |