[Commlist] New book: Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film

Transnationalism and Imperialism
https://iupress.org/9780253060747/transnationalism-and-imperialism/

While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, 
they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns 
exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and 
gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.

Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film 
traces the Western from the silent era to present day as the genre has 
circulated the world. Contributors examine the reception and production 
of American Westerns outside the US alongside the transnational aspects 
of American productions, and they consider the work of minority 
directors who use the genre to interrogate a visual history of 
oppression. By viewing Western films through a transnational lens and 
focusing on the reinterpretations, appropriations, and parallel 
developments of the genre outside the US, editors Hervé Mayer and David 
Roche contribute to a growing body of literature that debunks the 
pervasive correlation between the genre and American identity.

Perfect for media studies and political science, Transnationalism and 
Imperialism reveals that Western films are more than cowboys; they are a 
critical intersection where issues of power and coloniality are negotiated.

    This edited volume is transnational in scope, demonstrating how 
filmmakers have used the Western genre to confront the ideologies of 
imperialism and colonization in various locations and periods. It is a 
detailed and comparative study of individual films, and an important 
contribution towards understanding the continuing vitality of the Western.
    ~Stephen Teo Kian Teck, author of Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre 
Outside and Inside Hollywood

    This is a timely, dizzying mix of powerful and well-researched 
explorations of the Western as a potent, transnational and worlding genre.
    ~Neil Campbell, author of The Rhizomatic West, Post-Westerns, and 
Worlding the Western


Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Hervé Mayer and David Roche

Part I: US-American Westerns from a Transnational Perspective
1. Transnationalism on the Transcontinental Railroad: John Ford's The 
Iron Horse (1924), by Patrick Adamson
2. John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy (1948-1950): Caught Between US-American 
Imperialism and Irish Republicanism, by Costanza Salvi
3. Decentering the National in Hollywood: Transnational Storytelling in 
the Mexico Western Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954), by Hervé Mayer
4. Transnational Identity on the Contemporary Texan-Mexican Border in 
Tejano (David Blue Garcia, 2018), by Marine Soubeille

Part II: European Westerns and the Critique of Imperialism
5. A Yugoslav "Lemon Tree in Siberia": The Partisan Western Kapetan Leši 
(Živorad Mitrović, 1960), by Dragan Batančev
6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) and the Western: Reframing the 
Imperialist Hero, by Hadrien Fontanaud
7. Unwanted Salvation: The Use of the Savior Formula in The Dark Valley 
(Andreas Prochaska, 2014), by Marek Paryż
8. Transnational Post-Westerns in French Cinema: Adieu Gary (Nassim 
Amaouche, 2009) and Les Cowboys(Thomas Bidegain, 2015), by Jesús Ángel 
González

Spotlight on the Italian Western
9. Silent Westerns Made in Italy: The Dawn of a Transnational Genre 
between US Imperial Narratives and Nationalistic Appropriations, by 
Alessandra Magrin Haas
10. Where the Classical, the Transnational and the Acid Western Meet: 
Matalo! (Cesare Canevari, 1970), Violence and Cultural Resistance on the 
Spaghetti Western Frontier, by Lee Broughton

Part III: Westerns in a Post-Colonial or Post-Empire Context
11. West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil, by Mike Phillips
12. (Not) John Wayne & (Not) the US-American West: Jauja (Lisandro 
Alonso, 2014), by Jenny Barrett
13. Remaking the Western in Japanese Cinema: East Meets West (Kihachi 
Okamoto, 1995), Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007), and 
Unforgiven (San-il Lee, 2013), by Vivian P. Y. Lee
14. The South African Frontier in Five Fingers for Marseilles (Michael 
Matthews, 2017), by Claire Dutriaux and Annael Le Poullennec

Spotlight on the Australian Western
15. "They like all pictures which remind them of their own": The 
'Entangled' Development of Australian Westerns, by Emma Hamilton
16. Westerns from an Aboriginal Point of View or Why the Australian 
Western (Still) Matters: The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002) and Sweet 
Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017), by David Roche

Coda: We Will Not Ride Off into the Sunset, by Hervé Mayer and David Roche
Index
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