Author: Lee Broughton
Country: Britain
Publisher:
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1501343491, 9781501343490
Available: March 19, 2020
Once one of the most popular film genres and a key player in the birth of
early narrative cinema, the Western has experienced a rebirth in the era of
post-classical filmmaking with a small but noteworthy selection of Westerns
being produced long after the genre's 1950s heyday. Thanks to regular repertory
cinema and television screenings, home video releases and critical reappraisals
by cultural gatekeepers such as Quentin Tarantino, an ever-increasing number of
these Westerns have become cult films. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent,
bizarre or simply little heard-of obscurities, Reframing Cult Westerns
offers a multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of cult
Western films.These twelve essays present a wide-ranging methodological scope, from industrial histories to ecocritical approaches, auteurist analysis to queer and other ideological angles. With a thorough analysis of the genre from both American and international perspectives, Reframing Cult Westerns offers fresh insight on the Western as a global phenomenon.
Lee Broughton's new edited collection 'Reframing Cult
Westerns: From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight' (Bloomsbury,
2020)
Key films covered include John Sturges's The Magnificent
Seven (1960), Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Robert
Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or
Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980),
Walter Hill's The Long Riders (1980), William Wiard's Tom Horn (1980),
Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo (1970), Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Whity (1971),
Werner Wallroth's Blood Brothers (Blutsbrüder, 1975), Dean Reed's Sing, Cowboy,
Sing (1981), John Hillcoat's The Proposition (2005), Herschel Gordon Lewis's
Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), Sergio Garrone's Django the Bastard (Django il
bastardo, 1969), George Hickenlooper's Grey Knight (1993), Alex Turner's Dead
Birds (2004), Lisandro Alonso's Jauja (2014), Kristian Levring's The Salvation
(2014), John Maclean's Slow West (2015), Martin Koolhoven's Brimstone (2016),
Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant (2015), Sergio Corbucci's The Great
Silence (Il grande silenzio, 1968), Joaquín Romero Marchent's Cut-Throats Nine
(Condenados a vivir, 1972), Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012) and The
Hateful Eight (2015).
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