The western in the global south

The western in the global south / edited by MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz.

The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and ho...

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Other Authors: Keresztesi, Rita (Editor), Higgins, MaryEllen, 1967- (Editor), Oscherwitz, Dayna, 1970- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge advances in film studies ; 34.
Subjects:
Western films > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Western films
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Colonial circulations of the western in the global south. The western in colonial Southern Africa / James Burns
  • Cassava westerns: theorizing the pleasures of playing the outlaw in Africa / Tsitsi Jaji
  • The Italian (southern) western: from colonial cinema to spaghetti western / Giovanna Trento
  • From Django to Django unchained: love narratives in the global south / Clifford T. Manlove
  • The western in sub-saharan Africa and the Caribbean. In the crossfire: Africa, cinema, and violence in Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako / Dayna Oscherwitz
  • Trashing the Western's revenge narrative in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt / MaryEllen Higgins
  • Cowboys and West Indians: decolonizing the western and Perry Henzell's The harder they come / Rita Keresztesi
  • The western in Australia and Asia. Aboriginal cowboys on the possibilities of the western in Australia's far west / Andrew W. Hurley
  • Tears of the black tiger: the western and Thai cinema / Jesus Jimenez-Varea and Milagros Exposito-Barea
  • Tamil B movie westerns: the global south and genre subversion / Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai
  • South American, Mexican and borderlands westerns. An "imperfect" genre: rethinking politics in Latin American westerns / Chelsea Wessels
  • Landscaping the western: Ciro Guerra's The wind journeys / Carlos G. Torres-Rodriguez
  • Carlos Bolado's Bajo California: crossing borders and dislocating the western tradition / Carolina Rueda
  • Disinterring the western in Three burials of Melquiades Estrada and No country for old men / Brent Strang.

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