UID:
almahu_9948665222002882
Format:
1 online resource (244 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9781787071568
Content:
According to Jim Kitses (1969), the Western originally offered American directors a rich canvas to express a singular authorial vision of the American past and its significance. The Western’s recognizable conventions and symbols, rich filmic heritage, and connections to pulp fiction created a widely spoken «language» for self-expression and supplemented each filmmaker’s power to express their vision of American society. This volume seeks to re-examine the significance of auteur theory for the Western by analysing the auteur director «unbridled» by traditional definitions or national contexts. This book renders a complex portrait of the Western auteur by considering the genre in a transnational context. It proposes that narrow views of auteurism should be reconsidered in favour of broader definitions that see meaning created, both intentionally and unintentionally, by a director; by other artistic contributors, including actors and the audience; or through the intersection with other theoretical concepts such as re-allegorization. In so doing, it illuminates the Western as a vehicle for expressing complex ideas of national and transnational identity.
Note:
CONTENTS: Emma Hamilton/Alistair Rolls: Editors on Auteurs: Thoughts on Auteurism from the Frontier – Alex Davis: The Star Auteur: Jimmy Stewart Out West – Tom Ue: Pastiche, Genre and Violence in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds – Emma Hamilton: «Probably a White Fella»: Rolf de Heer, The Tracker and the Limits of Auteurism – Matthew Carter: The Post-apocalyptic Frontier: Reappropriating Western Violence for Feminism in Mad Max: Fury Road – Marek Paryz: Narrative (Il)Logic and the Problem of Character Motivation in Sergio Corbucci’s Revenge Westerns – Lee Broughton: Adaptation, Transculturation and the Western Auteur: Louis L’Amour, Peter Collinson and The Man Called Noon – Maria Ioniță: Auteurism versus Genre in the Romanian New Wave: Radu Jude’s Interpretation of Western Tropes in Aferim! – Alistair Rolls/Emma Hamilton/Clara Sitbon: Auteur is French for Author, too: Translating Other Afterthoughts Inspired by King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun into French Literature – Joyleen Christensen: «East meets West meets East again»: The Good, The Bad, The Weird and the Transnational Dialogue of Auteurs – Omar Ahmed: The Indian Western: Revisiting Sholay and the Dacoit Film as Transnational Exegesis.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781787071551
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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