The western in the global south /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Higgins, MaryEllen, 1967- (Editor), Keresztesi, Rita (Editor), Oscherwitz, Dayna, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge advances in film studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Colonial circulations of the western in the global south. The western in colonial Southern Africa / James Burns
  • Cassava westerns: theorizing the pleasures of playing the outlaw in Africa / Tsitsi Jaji
  • The Italian (southern) western: from colonial cinema to spaghetti western / Giovanna Trento
  • From Django to Django unchained: love narratives in the global south / Clifford T. Manlove
  • The western in sub-saharan Africa and the Caribbean. In the crossfire: Africa, cinema, and violence in Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako / Dayna Oscherwitz
  • Trashing the Western's revenge narrative in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt / MaryEllen Higgins
  • Cowboys and West Indians: decolonizing the western and Perry Henzell's The harder they come / Rita Keresztesi
  • The western in Australia and Asia. Aboriginal cowboys on the possibilities of the western in Australia's far west / Andrew W. Hurley
  • Tears of the black tiger: the western and Thai cinema / Jesus Jimenez-Varea and Milagros Exposito-Barea
  • Tamil B movie westerns: the global south and genre subversion / Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai
  • South American, Mexican and borderlands westerns. An "imperfect" genre: rethinking politics in Latin American westerns / Chelsea Wessels
  • Landscaping the western: Ciro Guerra's The wind journeys / Carlos G. Torres-Rodriguez
  • Carlos Bolado's Bajo California: crossing borders and dislocating the western tradition / Carolina Rueda
  • Disinterring the western in Three burials of Melquiades Estrada and No country for old men / Brent Strang.