Transnationalism and Imperialism : Endurance of the Global Western Film.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Hervé Mayer and David Roche -- Part I. US-American Westerns from a Transnational Perspective -- 1. Transnationalism on the Transcontinental Railroad: John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924) / Patrick Adamson -- 2. John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy" (1948-1950): Caught between US-American Imperialism and Irish Republicanism / Costanza Salvi -- 3. Decentering the National in Hollywood: Transnational Storytelling in the Mexico Western Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954) / Hervé Mayer -- 4. Transnational Identity on the Contemporary Texas-Mexico Border in Tejano (David Blue Garcia, 2018) / Marine Soubeille -- Part II. European Westerns and the Critique of Imperialism -- 5. A Yugoslav "Lemon Tree in Siberia": The Partisan Western Kapetan Leši (Živorad Mitrović, 1960) / Dragan Batančev -- 6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) and the Western: Reframing the Imperialist Hero / Hadrien Fontanaud -- 7. Unwanted Salvation: The Use of the Savior Formula in The Dark Valley (Andreas Prochaska, 2014) / Marek Paryż -- 8. Transnational Post-Westerns in French Cinema: Adieu Gary (Nassim Amaouche, 2009) and Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain, 2015) / Jesús Ángel González -- 9. Silent Westerns Made in Italy: The Dawn of a Transnational Genre between US Imperial Narratives and Nationalistic Appropriations / Alessandra Magrin Haas -- 10. Where the Classical, the Transnational, and the Acid Western Meet: Matalo! (Cesare Canevari, 1970), Violence, and Cultural Resistance on the Spaghetti Western Frontier / Lee Broughton -- Part III. Westerns in a Postcolonial or Postempire Context -- 11. West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil / Mike Phillips -- 12. (Not) John Wayne and (Not) the US-American West:Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014) / Jenny Barrett.

13. Remaking the Western in Japanese Cinema: East Meets West (Kihachi Okamoto, 1995), Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007), and Unforgiven (Sang-il Lee, 2013) / Vivian P. Y. Lee -- 14. The South African Frontier in Five Fingers for Marseilles (Michael Matthews, 2017) / Claire Dutriaux and Annael Le Poullennec -- 15. "They Like All Pictures Which Remind Them of Their Own": The "Entangled" Development of Australian Westerns / Emma Hamilton -- 16. Westerns from an Aboriginal Point of View or Why the Australian Western (Still) Matters: The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002) and Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017) / David Roche -- Coda: We Will Not Ride Off into the Sunset / Hervé Mayer and David Roche -- Index.

-- This book redefines American productions of the Western genre as an expression of a transnational ideology and culture of imperialism. Reviewers agree that this collection offers the most impressive sampling of the vast number of global Westerns produced from the silent era to the present day, compared to other publications in recent years on the Western. -- IUP is a leading publisher in areas of film and media studies related to this book including early and silent film, national cinemas, and Italian and French film. This fulfills a goal outlined in IUP's strategic plan to bring an international scope to the discipline. -- The audience is scholarly and the book is highly likely to be recommended as a library purchase. It will reach scholars and students studying the Western genre, critical film theory, and the cultural history of colonialism and imperialism.

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