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BL
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739989
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b559922
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edited by Marek Paryz, John R. Leo.
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The post-2000 film western : : contexts, transnationality, hybridity\ edited by Marek Paryz, John R. Leo.
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Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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1137531282
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: 9781137531285
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| Contents
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Introduction; Marek Paryz --;PART I: THE WESTERN 'AT HOME': DIALOGUES WITH THE TRADITION --;1.'Is There Actually Any Jim̌nez?': Believing as Seeing in "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"; Lee Clark Mitchell --;2.'You Must Pay for Everything in This World One Way or Another': "True Grit" and the Economics of Justice; Martin Holtz --;3.A Spaghetti Southern: "Django Unchained"; Rob Kroes --;4. Who Was That Masked Man? Conception and Reception in" The Lone Ranger"; Shelley Armitage --;PART II: THE WESTERN 'ABROAD': TRANSNATIONAL VARIATIONS --;5.'Crossing the Beast': American Identity and Frontier Mythology in "Sin Nombre"; Matthew Carter --;6. Wild West in the Mild West: Reading the Canadian Anti-Western through "The Englishman's Boy"; David Stirrup --;7.'Australia. What Fresh Hell Is This?': Conceptualizing the Australian Western in "The Proposition"; Emma Hamilton --;8. Staging the 'Wild Wild East': Decoding the Western in East Asian Films; Vivian P.Y. Lee --;PART III: THE WESTERN 'OUT THERE': THE ALLURE OF THE FANTASTIC --;9. Decolonizing the Western: A Revisionist Analysis of "Avatar" with a Twist; M. Elise Marubbio --;10. The Post-Apocalyptic Western as a Bookish Genre: "The Book of Eli"'s Vision of an Archival Future; Andrew S. Gross --;11. The War on Terror and Intersecting Film Genres in "Jonah Hex"; Marek Paryz --;PART IV: THE WESTERN 'ELSEWHERE': CLASSIC INSPIRATIONS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES --;12. Avant-Garde and Experimental Westerns: The Frontier at the Limits of the Moving Image; Alexandra Keller --;13. 'The Faces May Change, the Names, but They're There, Now and Fifty Years from Now': Conflations of Cold War Westerns in the Post-9/11 USAF Recruitment Commercials; J̤zef Jaskulski.
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This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television commercials, the contributors seek to account for the appeal and currency of the film Western today.
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Motion pictures -- History -- 21st century.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Western films -- History and criticism.
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| LC Classification
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PN1995.9.W4E358 2015
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John R Leo
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Marek Paryż
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Post two thousand film western
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