The Evolution of the Western: The American Frontier in Film and Television
Autor Martin Kichen Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 oct 2024
Concepută ca o lucrare de referință fundamentală, The Evolution of the Western reprezintă un efort academic remarcabil de a cartografia cel mai influent gen cinematografic american. Suntem de părere că această enciclopedie reușește să depășească simpla enumerare a titlurilor, oferind o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care identitatea națională a Statelor Unite a fost oglindită pe ecran în ultimii 150 de ani. Structura volumului este riguros organizată, începând cu cinci eseuri introductive care stabilesc cadrul teoretic — de la geneza mitului cowboy-ului ca figură a haiducului, până la impactul multiculturalismului și al noilor discipline academice asupra genului.
Descoperim aici o abordare exhaustivă ce pornește de la rădăcinile literare de tip „pulp” și ajunge la producții contemporane precum The Ballad of Buster Scruggs sau serialul Breaking Bad. Spre deosebire de lucrarea Westerns de Gary R. Edgerton, care se concentrează pe o selecție de studii de specialitate, volumul lui Martin Kich adoptă un format enciclopedic mult mai accesibil pentru educația terțiară, incluzând casete tehnice cu date despre studiouri și încasări pentru fiecare dintre cele aproape 100 de titluri analizate. Apreciem în mod deosebit modul în care autorul integrează lucrările sale anterioare despre cultura populară, precum Pop Goes the Decade, pentru a explica tranziția de la perioada de glorie postbelică a westernului tradițional către abordările revizioniste și de contracultură. Față de The Western de David Lusted, care este un ghid introductiv pentru studenți, lucrarea de față oferă o profunzime istorică superioară, fiind o resursă indispensabilă pentru înțelegerea evoluției mitului frontierei în context global.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1440876177
Pagini: 520
Dimensiuni: 180 x 256 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1.15 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm acest volum studenților și pasionaților de cinematografie care doresc să înțeleagă cum un gen aparent simplu a devenit un vehicul pentru comentariul social și politic. Cititorul câștigă acces la o bază de date documentată riguros, beneficiind de expertiza profesorului Martin Kich. Este un instrument de lucru esențial pentru cursuri de istoria filmului, oferind date concrete despre producție și contextul cultural al evoluției westernului.
Descriere
Follow the entire history of the Western, from its roots in the pulp novels of the early 20th century, through the serials of the silent era and the mid-century classics of John Ford and John Wayne, to the recent award-winning revisionist works, like Unforgiven and No Country for Old Men, that provide a more complex and nuanced take on history of the West. Perhaps more than any other pop culture genre, the Western allows us to view how Americans have seen themselves over the last 150 years.
Build a foundational understanding of the genre with 5 introductory essays, exploring the development of the Western Mythos in the traditional Western, the heyday of the traditional Western in the post-WWII period, revisionist Westerns and the counterculture, race and identify, and the Western outside of the USA. Close to 100 encyclopedia entries examine one or more movies or television programs and show how their creation and plots demonstrate the overall evolution of the genre. Easily compare films and TV programs - from early genre favorites such as Gunsmoke to more recent releases like Django Unchained - with essential facts boxes accompanying each entry, with information on the director, studio, key actors, and box office receipts.
Cuprins
Alphabetical List of Entries
Introductory Essays
Essay 1: The Development of the Western Mythos and of the Elements of the Traditional Western: Or, How the Outlaw and the Cowboy Became Much the Same Figure
Essay 2: Western Fiction, Western Films, and the Post-War Heyday of the Traditional Western
Essay 3: The Emergence of the Counterculture and the Development of the Revisionist Western
Essay 4: Rights Movements, Multiculturalism, and the Development of New Academic Disciplines and Radically New Perspectives on the Western Mythos
Essay 5: The International Western
Encyclopedia
3:10 to Yuma (1957), 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Alamo (1960)
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Big Country (1958)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Bonanza (1959-1973)
Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) and Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1974)
The Cavalry Trilogy: Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Cimarron (1931), Cimarron (1960)
City Slickers (1991)
Comes a Horseman (1978)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Deadwood (2004-2006)
Django Unchained (2012)
The Dollars Trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
The Electric Horseman (1979)
The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972)
F-Troop (1965-1967)
Garden of Evil (1954)
Giant (1956)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Gunsmoke (1955-1975)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
High Noon (1952)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Hombre (1967)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Hud (1963)
The Iron Horse (1924), Union Pacific (1939)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Jesse James (1939) and The Return of Frank James (1940)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Kung Fu (1972-1974)
Lawman (1971) and Valdez Is Coming (1971)
The Left-Handed Gun (1958)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Little Big Man (1970)
The Lone Ranger (Film, 2013), The Lone Ranger (Television Series, 1949-1957)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
The Long Riders (1980)
The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Man in the Wilderness (1971), The Revenant (2015)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Misfits (1961)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
News of the World (2020)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Open Range (2003)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Pale Rider (1985)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
The Ranown Cycle: Seven Men from Now (1956), The Tall T (1957), Decision at Sundown (1957), Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), Ride Lonesome (1959), Westbound (1959), Comanche Station (1960)
Red River (1948)
Ride the High Country (1962)
A River Runs through It (1992)
The Sea of Grass (1947)
The Searchers (1956)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Shane (1953)
The Shootist (1976)
Silverado (1985)
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
Soldier Blue (1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Stagecoach (1939)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Thunderheart (1992)
Tom Horn (1980)
Tombstone (1993)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
True Grit (1969), True Grit (2010)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Unforgiven (1992)
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
Westward the Women (1951)
Westworld (Film, 1973), Futureworld (Film, 1976), Beyond Westworld (Television Series, 1980), Westworld (Television Series, 2016-2022)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wild Wild West (Television Series, 1965-1969), Wild Wild West (Film, 1999)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Yellowstone (Television Series, 2018-), 1883 (Television Series, 2021-), 1923 (Television Series, 2022-)
Young Guns (1988), Young Guns II (1990)
Zorro (Television Series, 1957-1959), Zorro, the Gay Blade (Film, 1981), The Mask of Zorro (Film, 1998), The Legend of Zorro (Film, 2005)
Postscript: Blood Meridian (Novel, 1985)
Index
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