Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Hervé Mayer and David Roche
Part I: US-American Westerns from a Transnational
Perspective
1. Transnationalism on the Transcontinental
Railroad: John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924), by Patrick Adamson
2. John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy (1948-1950): Caught Between
US-American Imperialism and Irish Republicanism, by Costanza
Salvi
3. Decentering the National in Hollywood: Transnational
Storytelling in the Mexico Western Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich,
1954), by Hervé Mayer
4. Transnational Identity on the Contemporary Texan-Mexican Border
in Tejano (David Blue Garcia, 2018), by Marine Soubeille
Part II: European Westerns and the Critique of
Imperialism
5. A Yugoslav "Lemon Tree in Siberia": The
Partisan Western Kapetan Leši (Živorad Mitrović, 1960), by Dragan
Batančev
6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) and the Western: Reframing
the Imperialist Hero, by Hadrien Fontanaud
7. Unwanted Salvation: The Use of the Savior Formula in The Dark
Valley (Andreas Prochaska, 2014), by Marek Paryż
8. Transnational Post-Westerns in French Cinema: Adieu Gary (Nassim
Amaouche, 2009) and Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain, 2015), by Jesús
Ángel González
Spotlight on the Italian Western
9. Silent Westerns Made
in Italy: The Dawn of a Transnational Genre between US Imperial
Narratives and Nationalistic Appropriations, by Alessandra Magrin
Haas
10. Where the Classical, the Transnational and the Acid Western
Meet: Matalo! (Cesare Canevari, 1970), Violence and Cultural
Resistance on the Spaghetti Western Frontier, by Lee Broughton
Part III: Westerns in a Post-Colonial or Post-Empire
Context
11. West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil, by
Mike Phillips
12. (Not) John Wayne & (Not) the US-American West: Jauja (Lisandro
Alonso, 2014), by Jenny Barrett
13. Remaking the Western in Japanese Cinema: East Meets West
(Kihachi Okamoto, 1995), Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike,
2007), and Unforgiven (San-il Lee, 2013), by Vivian P. Y. Lee
14. The South African Frontier in Five Fingers for Marseilles
(Michael Matthews, 2017), by Claire Dutriaux and Annael Le
Poullennec
Spotlight on the Australian Western
15. "They like all
pictures which remind them of their own": The 'Entangled'
Development of Australian Westerns, by Emma Hamilton
16. Westerns from an Aboriginal Point of View or Why the Australian
Western (Still) Matters: The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002) and Sweet
Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017), by David Roche
Coda: We Will Not Ride Off into the Sunset, by Hervé Mayer and
David Roche
Index
Hervé Mayer is Assistant Professor of American studies and cinema in Montpellier, France. He is author of Guerre sauvage & empire de la liberté (Savage war and empire of liberty) and La Construction de l'Ouest américain dans le cinéma hollywoodien (The construction of the American West in Hollywood cinema) and has published several articles about the Western and the politics of US cinema.
David Roche is Professor of film studies in Montpellier, France. He is author of Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction and Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?. He is editor (with Cristelle Maury) of Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era.
"This edited volume is transnational in scope, demonstrating how
filmmakers have used the Western genre to confront the ideologies
of imperialism and colonization in various locations and periods.
It is a detailed and comparative study of individual films, and an
important contribution towards understanding the continuing
vitality of the Western."—Stephen Teo Kian Teck, author of Eastern
Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood
"This is a timely, dizzying mix of powerful and well-researched
explorations of the Western as a potent, transnational and worlding
genre."—Neil Campbell, author of The Rhizomatic West,
Post-Westerns, and Worlding the Western
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