The post-2000 film western : contexts, transnationality, hybridity / edited by Marek Paryz, University of Warsaw, Poland and John R. Leo, University of Rhode Island, USA

Additional Titles:: Post two thousand film western
Published:: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Physical Description:: xii, 265 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Paryż, Marek and Leo, John R., 1950-

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Western "At Home": Dialogues with the Tradition -- 1."Is There Actually Any Jimenez?": Believing as Seeing in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada / Lee Clark Mitchell -- 2."You Must Pay for Everything in This World One Way or Another": The Economics of Justice in True Grit / Martin Holtz -- 3.A Spaghetti Southern: Landscapes of Fear in Django Unchained / Rob Kroes -- 4.Who Was That Masked Man? Conception and Reception in The Lone Ranger / Shelley Armitage -- pt. II The Western "Abroad": Transnational Variations -- 5."Crossing the Beast": American Identity and Frontier Mythology in Sin Nombre / Matthew Carter -- 6.Wild West in the Mild West: Reading the Canadian Anti-Western through The Englishman's Boy / David Stirrup -- 7."Australia. What Fresh Hell Is This?": Conceptualizing the Australian Western in The Proposition / Emma Hamilton -- 8.Staging the "Wild Wild East": Decoding the Western in East Asian Films / Vivian P. Y. Lee -- pt. III The Western "Out There": The Allure of the Fantastic -- 9.Decolonizing the Western: A Revisionist Analysis of Avatar with a Twist / M. Elise Marubbio -- 10.The Post-Apocalyptic Western as a Bookish Genre: The Book of Eli's Vision of an Archival Future / Andrew S. Gross -- 11.The War on Terror and Intersecting Film Genres in Jonah Hex / Marek Paryz -- pt. IV The Western "Elsewhere": Classic Inspirations and New Technologies -- 12.Avant-Garde and Experimental Westerns: The Frontier at the Limits of the Moving Image / Alexandra Keller -- 13."The Faces May Change, the Names, but They're There, Now and Fifty Years from Now": The Myth of the Cavalry in Post-9/11 US Armed Forces Recruitment Commercials / Jozef Jaskulski.

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9781137531278
1137531274

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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