Overview

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.

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Author:   Emma Hamilton ,  Alistair Rolls
Publisher:   Peter Lang Ltd
Imprint:   Peter Lang Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9781787071551

ISBN 10:   1787071553
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   26 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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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).

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