This essay collection analyzes the Western film genre as it has been reimagined during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The chapters consider old conventions from a postmodern perspective while also addressing contemporary social, cultural, and thematic aspects.
This essay collection analyzes the Western film genre as it has been reimagined during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The chapters consider old conventions from a postmodern perspective while also addressing contemporary social, cultural, and thematic aspects.
Douglas Brode is a retired instructor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. Shea T. Brode is an independent scholar who has collaborated with his father as editor on several previous collections.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The 21st Century Western: To Begin at the Beginning . . . Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode Chapter 1: An American Genre in Transition: Dead Man (1995) as Predecessor to the 21st Century Western Ann Hetzel Gunkel Chapter 2: "Pardon Me, but Your 'i/Indian' Is Showing!": Native American Images in 21st Century Westerns Alan Lechusza Aquallo with Douglas Brode Chapter 3: Missing in the Mountains: The 'Hivernant' as 21st Century Frontier Hero Nicholas Blower Chapter 4: Evolution of a Postmodern Genre: The Western Films of Joel and Ethan Coen Lynnea Chapman King Chapter 5: Rooster Cogburn Revisited: Triangulating True Grit Walter Metz Chapter 6: Westward Ho! The Women!: Frontier Females in Post-Feminist Films Rosanne Welch with Douglas Brode Chapter 7: An American Propensity: The Continuum of Violence in Western Films Nathan Wuertenberg Chapter 8: Once Upon a Time in Tarantino's West: The Persistence of Westerns as the American Fairy Tale Beth Jane Toren with Douglas
Introduction: The 21st Century Western: To Begin at the Beginning . . . Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode Chapter 1: An American Genre in Transition: Dead Man (1995) as Predecessor to the 21st Century Western Ann Hetzel Gunkel Chapter 2: "Pardon Me, but Your 'i/Indian' Is Showing!": Native American Images in 21st Century Westerns Alan Lechusza Aquallo with Douglas Brode Chapter 3: Missing in the Mountains: The 'Hivernant' as 21st Century Frontier Hero Nicholas Blower Chapter 4: Evolution of a Postmodern Genre: The Western Films of Joel and Ethan Coen Lynnea Chapman King Chapter 5: Rooster Cogburn Revisited: Triangulating True Grit Walter Metz Chapter 6: Westward Ho! The Women!: Frontier Females in Post-Feminist Films Rosanne Welch with Douglas Brode Chapter 7: An American Propensity: The Continuum of Violence in Western Films Nathan Wuertenberg Chapter 8: Once Upon a Time in Tarantino's West: The Persistence of Westerns as the American Fairy Tale Beth Jane Toren with Douglas
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