Post Westerns Cinema Region West 1st Edition by Neil Campbell 9780803234765 0803234767
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ISBN 10: 0803234767
ISBN 13: 9780803234765
Author: Neil Campbell
During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America’s other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply “maintaining its empty frame.” Yet this frame is far from empty, as Post-Westerns shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films—including Bad Day at Black Rock, The Misfits, Lone Star, Easy Rider, Gas Food Lodging, Down in the Valley, and No Country for Old Men—reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself. Campbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact “ghost-Westerns,” haunted by the earlier form’s devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.
Table of contents:
1. Dead Westerns
2. Mourning in America
3. “You and Your God’s Country”
4. “We Keep Heading West”
5. Exile and Dislocation in the Urban Post-Western
6. Post-Western Genealogies
7. “Opened from the Inside Out”
8. The Idioms of Living
9. The Schizo-West
10. Spook Country
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