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

The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film/ 
(London: I.B. Tauris), written by Dr Lee Broughton (Leverhulme Trust 
Early Career Fellow, University of Leeds).


*Back Cover Copy:*

The Western has always been inextricably linked to the USA, and studies 
have continually sought to connect its historical development to changes 
in American society and Hollywood innovations. Focusing new critical 
attention on films produced in Germany, Italy and Britain, this timely 
book offers a radical rereading of the evolutionary history of the 
Western and brings a vital international dimension to its study. Lee 
Broughton argues not only that European films possess a special 
significance in terms of the genre's global development, but also that 
many offered groundbreaking and progressive representations of 
traditional Wild West 'Others': Native Americans, African Americans and 
so-called 'strong women'. /The Euro-Western/ investigates how the 
histories of Germany, Italy and Britain – and the idiosyncrasies of 
their respective national film industries – influenced representations 
of the self and 'Other', shedding light on the broader cultural, 
historical and political contexts that shaped European engagement with 
the genre.

Endorsements:
'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 Bastard/ and /Hannie Caulder/ in 
particular is a tour de force.'
Sir Christopher Frayling, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, Royal 
College of Art, and author of /Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans 
from Karl May to Sergio Leone/.
'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 at 
Bournemouth University, UK, and author of /Radical Frontiers in the 
Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema/.
'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, USA, and author of /Native Recognition: 
Indigenous Cinema and the Western/.
'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 London.

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