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The Western in the Global South
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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 |2 pages
PART I: Colonial Circulations of the Western in the Global South
chapter 2|18 pages
Cassava Westerns: Theorizing the Pleasures of Playing the Outlaw in Africa
chapter 3|18 pages
The Italian (Southern) Western: From Colonial Cinema to Spaghetti Western
chapter 4|19 pages
From Django to Django Unchained – Love Narratives in the Global South
part |2 pages
PART II: The Western in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean
chapter 5|15 pages
In the Crossre: Africa, Cinema, and Violence in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Bamako (2006)
chapter 6|14 pages
Trashing the Western’s Revenge Narrative in
chapter 7|17 pages
Cowboys and West Indians: Decolonizing the Western and Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come
part |2 pages
PART III: The Western in Australia and Asia
chapter 8|20 pages
Aboriginal Cowboys? On the Possibilities of the Western in Australia’s Far West
chapter 9|16 pages
Tears of the Black Tiger : The Western and Thai Cinema
chapter 10|16 pages
Tamil B Movie Westerns: The Global South and Genre Subversion
part |2 pages
PART IV: South American, Mexican and Borderlands Westerns