Unbridling the Western Film Auteur: Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations

ISBN-13: 9781787071551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str.

Emma Hamilton; Alistair Rolls

Opis

The Western has traditionally offered American film directors a rich canvas to express visions of the American past. This volume revisits the Western in a transnational context, exploring the role of auteurism. Stars like Jimmy Stewart and international films like Aferim! and Inglourious Basterds are analysed in this new approach to the genre.

Spis treści

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 Ioni a: 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.

O autorze

Emma Hamilton is a Lecturer in History in the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her first monograph, Masculinities in American Western Films: A Hyper-Linear History, was published in 2016. Her research interests include representation studies, especially film and history; gender, sexuality, age and race across time and place; and modern American and Australian histories.Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research focuses on the work of Boris Vian and French and Anglo-American crime fiction. He is the author of The Flight of the Angels: Intertextuality in Four Novels by Boris Vian (1999), French and American Noir: Dark Crossings, with Deborah Walker (2009), and Paris and the Fetish: Primal Crime Scenes (2014).