Monday 06/02/2012 8pm Tickets: £5/£3.50 conc
True Grit beats a path back to the original Charles Portis novel to spin the tale of 14-year-old Mattie Ross, a pig-tailed angel of vengeance, who is hell-bent on finding the man who robbed and killed her father.
Dir: Ethan & Joel Coen, USA, 2010, 110 mins, 15
Cast. Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon
After the screening, Lee Broughton will present a paper entitled 'True grit? Charting the representation of female characters in classical Hollywood Westerns'. The paper will highlight the numerous prescriptive codes and tropes that filmmakers have routinely employed in order to restrict the onscreen activities of female characters in Hollywood Westerns. Particular reference will be made to the character of Mattie Ross who appears in both the 1969 and 2010 film adaptations of Charles Portis' 'True Grit'.
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