The Contemporary Western: An American Genre Post-9/11

ISBN-13: 9781474427920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 208 str.

John White

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List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; Part I: The Cinema of Heroes and Heroic Action; 2: Reclaiming the heroes and heroic attitudes of classic Westerns: Open Range (Kevin Costner, 2003); 3: Restoring the Western hero and reclaiming the classic Hollywood experience: True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2010); 4: Defending home, defending homeland: Jane Got a Gun (Gavin O’Connor, 2016); Part II: The Cinematic Big Screen, Surround Sound, Ride; 5: Updating the escapism of the Western: The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski, 2013); 6: Affect and the immersive experience of bodily excess: The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2016); 7: The anchorless postmodern experience within an ahistorical filmic space: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012); Part III: The Cinema of Contemplative Reflection; 8: Employing religious concepts to address the political situation post-9/11: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005); 9: Living in a world of fear and inexplicable evil: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward, Robert Ford (Dominik, 2007); 10: Conclusion