ABSTRACT
The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |69 pages
Colonial Circulations of the Western in the Global South
part |47 pages
The Western in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean
chapter |15 pages
In the Crossfire
chapter |17 pages
Cowboys and West Indians
part |53 pages
The Western in Australia and Asia
part |71 pages
South American, Mexican, and Borderlands Westerns