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

Sun Jan 17 23:00:13 GMT 2021






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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