The Western in the Global SouthMaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, 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 how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre. |
Contents
Cassava Westerns Theorizing the Pleasures of Playing the Outlaw in Africa | |
The Italian Southern Western From colonial cinema to spaghetti western | |
From Django to Django Unchained Love narratives in the global south | |
In the Crossfire Africa Cinema and Violence in Abderrahmane Sissakos Bamako | |
Trashing the Westerns Revenge Narrative in MahamatSaleh Harouns Daratt | |
Cowboys and West Indians Decolonizing the Western and Perry Henzells | |
Tears of the Black Tiger The Western and Thai cinema | |
Tamil B Movie Westerns The Global South and Genre Subversion | |
An Imperfect Genre Rethinking Politics in Latin American Westerns | |
Landscaping the Western Ciro Guerras The Wind Journeys 2009 | |
Carolina Rueda | |
Disinterring the Western in Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and No Country | |
Contributors | |
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The Western in the Global South MaryEllen Higgins,Rita Keresztesi,Dayna Oscherwitz Limited preview - 2015 |
The Western in the Global South MaryEllen Higgins,Rita Keresztesi,Dayna Oscherwitz No preview available - 2015 |
The Western in the Global South MaryEllen Higgins,Rita Keresztesi,Dayna Oscherwitz No preview available - 2018 |