[Commlist] New book: The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film

Lee Broughton is pleased to announce that a paperback edition of /The 
Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the “Other” in Film/ (2016) has 
just been published by Bloomsbury Academic. Further information can be 
found here: 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-euro-western-9781350217928/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-euro-western-9781350217928/>


Testimonials and reviews:


Sergio Leone once observed that "the Western belongs to everyone", not 
just to Hollywood. Broughton's bold, perceptive and well-informed study 
looks closely at West German 'Winnetou' films, middle-period Italian 
Westerns and British Westerns between 1939 and the early 1970s, to 
discover strong counter-cultural representations of Native Americans, 
African Americans and women. Broughton also explores the reasons why. 
The analysis of /A Town Called B*stard/ and /Hannie Caulder/ in 
particular is a tour de force - Sir Christopher Frayling, Professor 
Emeritus of Cultural History, Royal College of Art.


Within this book Lee Broughton considers the diverse meanings Westerns 
have obtained through contact with various historical, cultural and 
political contexts - avoiding a merely US-centric framework - and in 
doing so contributes to the much-needed discourse that places the genre 
within global networks of cultural blending. What provocatively and 
intriguingly emerges is that, where progressive representations of 
ethnicity and gender in Westerns were concerned, the Europeans got there 
first - Austin Fisher, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, 
Bournemouth University.


Broughton's uniquely comparative study traces the legacies of national 
traumas in European Westerns of the 1960s and '70s. He locates a 
counter-politics to contemporaneous Hollywood productions in allegories 
of race and gender on screen, and in doing so expands the critical 
conversation about regional revisionism in an important and fascinating 
genre - Joanna Hearne, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, 
University of Missouri.


A hugely important book for its foregrounding of the Western as a 
transnational phenomenon. It sheds new light not only on the European 
Western, but also on the Hollywood Western and the ongoing dialogue 
between the two - Sean Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television 
Studies, Brunel University.


Broughton’s book is an impressive piece of scholarship, exemplary in the 
breadth of material covered in the course of examining the genre as a 
whole. He does a real service to readers seeking an understanding of the 
post-war European genre system - Louis Bayman, Lecturer in Film, 
University of Southampton.


The European Western in Broughton’s analysis gains its rightful place in 
the history of the genre, and, as his study convincingly argues, for 
good reasons - Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Research Fellow, Universidad 
Carlos III de Madrid.



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