Ride the Frontier: Exploring the Myth of the American West on Screen

ISBN-13: 9781476683065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Flavia Brizio-Skov

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why the Western?
1. Transnational Adaptation, Transculturation and Indigenization: Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars
Prologue  13
The National  16
The Origins: Local and Translocal  22
The Transnational  26
Conclusion  42
2. Celluloid Indians, 1950s Westerns and the Termination Act: Broken Arrow, White Feather, The Battle of Apache Pass, Devil's Doorway, The Last Wagon and The Last Hunt
Prologue  45
Broken Arrow (1950)  52
White Feather (1955) and The Battle of Apache Pass (1952)  57
Devil's Doorway (1950)  59
The Last Wagon (1956)  67
The Last Hunt (1956)  74
Conclusion  79
3. Heroines in Western Films? Mikhail Bakhtin's "Dialogic Imagination" in Shane, High Noon and Westward the Women
Monoglossia: The Submissive Woman and Shane (1953)  89
Heteroglossia: The Transgressive Woman and High Noon (1952)  93
­X-glossia: Transformational Women and Westward the Women (1951)  100
4. Hybridity and (De)Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in Rancho Notorious, Johnny Guitar and Duel in the Sun
Rancho Notorious: The Filmic Text (1952)  111
Johnny Guitar: Paratext  121
Johnny Guitar: Peritext and the Novel (1953)  123
Johnny Guitar: The Filmic Text (1954)  127
Duel in the Sun (1946): Paratext  136
Duel in the Sun: The Novel (1944)  139
Duel in the Sun: The Filmic Text (1946)  141
Patriarchy and Failed Masculinities  143
Patriarchy and Failed Femininities  146
Capitalism and Patriotism  149
5. New Paths of the Western in the Third Millennium: The Lone Ranger, Yesterday and Today
The Western Genre Today  152
Enter The Lone Ranger: Prologue  155
The Lone Ranger Yesterday or How the West Was Conquered  156
The Lone Ranger (2013): Paratext  161
The Lone Ranger Today or How the West Was Lost  164
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index