[Commlist] Book: Reframing Cult Westerns

Lee Broughton is pleased to announce that my edited collection 
/Reframing Cult Westerns: From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful 
Eight/ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) is now available as a paperback.

Further information can be found here: 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reframing-cult-westerns-9781501386893/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reframing-cult-westerns-9781501386893/>

Backmatter:

Once one of the most popular film genres and a key player in the birth 
of early narrative cinema, the Western has experienced a rebirth in the 
era of post-classical filmmaking with a small but noteworthy selection 
of Westerns being produced long after the genre's 1950s heyday. Thanks 
to regular repertory cinema and television screenings, home video 
releases and critical reappraisals by cultural gatekeepers such as 
Quentin Tarantino, an ever-increasing number of these Westerns have 
become cult films. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent, bizarre or 
simply little heard-of obscurities, /Reframing Cult Westerns/ offers a 
multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of 
cult Western films. These twelve essays present a wide-ranging 
methodological scope, from industrial histories to ecocritical 
approaches, auteurist analysis to queer and other ideological angles. 
With a thorough analysis of the genre from both American and 
international perspectives, /Reframing Cult Westerns/ offers fresh 
insight on the Western as a global phenomenon.


Reviews:


"Once the backbone of Hollywood production, the Western film has - since 
the 1960s - moved to the margins, often into the world of midnight 
movies and cults. Most studies of the Western tend to lose interest in 
the genre when it ceased to be mainstream - which is precisely where 
/Reframing Cult Westerns/ begins. The various essays in the book, 
curated by Lee Broughton, examine films which set out to be cults, and 
films which didn't but which have turned into cults over time. They 
revisit classic Westerns through the prism of more recent generic 
developments. They treat the Western as a global text, including 
examples from Australia and Argentina, Mexico and Italy, Denmark and 
Scotland, East and West Germany. The result is not only a reframing of 
some cult Westerns, but a reframing of our understanding of the Western 
film. Maybe it hasn't headed for the last roundup after all..." -- 
/Christopher Frayling, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, Royal 
College of Art, UK and author of Once Upon a Time in Italy (2002) and 
Sergio Leone (2000)/


"Lee Broughton has compiled an exciting collection of essays that draws 
together a range of contemporary approaches to studying the cult 
Western. For anyone wanting to find out why the genre remains crucial 
for our understanding of the United States and its role in the world, 
and for anyone interested in making sense of the genre's place within a 
global cultural context, this is a must-have book." -- /John White, 
Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK/


"An adventurous and illuminating collection, throwing light on many 
marginal, even eccentric films, and demonstrating that the Western still 
has many ways of exciting and intriguing us." -- /Edward Buscombe, 
editor of The BFI Companion to the Western (1988)/


"Seen through the lens of cult cinema, the Western, that most familiar 
of movie genres, takes on exciting and often unexpected new meanings. 
Whether providing fresh perspectives on familiar works or drawing our 
attention to understudied films and trends, these essays serve as a 
valuable reminder of the Western's vibrancy over the past half-century, 
and of the expressive possibilities it still offers filmmakers today." 
-- /Dr. Andrew Patrick Nelson, Associate Professor of Film Studies, 
University of Utah, USA/

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Dr. Lee Broughton is a freelance writer, critic, film programmer and 
lecturer in film and cultural studies. He is the author of /The 
Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film/ (2016) and 
the editor of /Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of 
Dollars to Django Unchained/ (2016).

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