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[ecrea] New Book: Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained

Thu Nov 17 00:10:35 GMT 2016




I am pleased to announce the recent publication of my new edited collection titled 'Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained' (Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

In 'Critical Perspectives on the Western' Lee Broughton has compiled a wide-ranging collection of essays by international scholars that look at various forms of the genre, on both the large and small screen. The contributors to this volume consider overlooked subgenres, Western stars, celebrities and authors, recent idiosyncratic engagements with the genre and Westerns produced outside of the USA. The essays also explore issues relating to culture, politics, transnationalism, postcolonialism, race and gender that are found within the films and television programmes under discussion.

*Contents:*

*Section I: Thematic groupings, overlooked clusters and hybrid collectivities* 1. Christopher Frayling: 'Zapata-Spaghetti: reflections on the Italian Western and the Mexican Revolution' 2. Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper: 'The Fantastic Frontier: Sixguns and Spectacle in the Hybrid Western' 3. Ivo Ritzer: 'Gunfight at the Transvaal Highveld: Locating the Boerewors Western in Southern Africa' 4. Lee Broughton: 'Rethinking the Representation of Race and Gender in American Exploitation Westerns from the 1960s'
*Section II: Historical celebrities, Western stars and hard-boiled authors*
5. John White: 'Contemporary obsession with the inexplicable nature of evil as expressed in /The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward, Robert Ford'/ 6. Jenny Barrett: 'A Cop in a Cowboy Hat: Timothy Olyphant, a Postmodern Eastwood in /Justified'/ 7. Jesús Ángel González: '“Going Blood-simple”: /Red Harvest/ in Film' (/Yojimbo/, /A Fistful of Dollars/, /La ciudad maldita/)
*Section III: 21^st  Century Westerns*
8. Pete Falconer: 'A solitary theme song from a 21^st Century Western' (/Appaloosa/) 9. Timothy Hughes: '“The Unheightened Moment”: Work, Duration, and Women’s Point-of-View in /Meek’s Cutoff'/ 10. Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris: 'Glorious B******* in Tarantino’s /Django Unchained/: When the West Crosses the South'
*Section IV: International Westerns*
11. Thomas Klein: 'Cross-cultural hybridity and the Western: /Tears of the Black Tiger'/
12. Geoff Mann: 'Thawing Out /The Frozen Limits'/
13. Mark Goodall: '“Spaghetti Savages”: the cinematic perversions of /Django Kill'/
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Further information can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Critical-Perspectives-Western-Fistful-Unchained/dp/1442272422/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479244841&sr=1-2

Lee Broughton

Recent Publication: /The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film /(London: I.B. Tauris, 2016)


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