The contemporary Western : an American genre post-9/11 /
The September 11th attacks in 2001 and the subsequent 'War on Terror' have had a profound effect on American cinema, and the contemporary Western is no exception. In this book, John White explores how films such as Open Range, True Grit and Jane Got a Gun reinforce a conservative myth of A...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Reclaiming the heroes and heroic attitudes of classic Westerns: Open Range (2003)
- Restoring the Western hero and reclaiming the classic Hollywood experience: True Grit (2010)
- Defending home, defending homeland: Jane Got a Gun (2016)
- Updating the escapism of the Western: The Lone Ranger (2013)
- Affect and the immersive experience of bodily excess: The Revenant (2015)
- The anchorless postmodern experience within an ahistorical filmic space: Django Unchained (2012)
- Employing religious concepts to address the political situation post-9/11: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
- Living in a world of fear and inexplicable evil: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
- Conclusion
