New Book Release ~ Reframing Cult Westerns: From the Magnificent Seven to the Hateful Eight

Reframing Cult Westerns: From the Magnificent Seven to the Hateful Eight

Author: Lee Broughton

Country: Britain

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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).