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Description

1. xii, 271 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "The western, one of Hollywood's great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other parts of the world, whilst at the same time declining in America. Although the western is often seen as an example of American cultural dominance, this book challenges this view. It considers the western from an Asian perspective, exploring why the rise of Asian westerns has come about, and examining how its aesthetics, styles and politics have evolved as a result. It analyses specific Asian westerns, to show how these employ Asian philosophical ideas and value systems, and includes discussion of westerns made elsewhere, including in Australia, Latin America and even in Hollywood but not made in traditional Hollywood style. The book concludes that the western is a genre which is truly global, and not one that that is purely intrinsic to America"--

Series statement

1. Media, culture and social change in Asia series

Uniform title

1. Media, culture, and social change in Asia series.

Subject

1. PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism
2. Western films > History and criticism
3. Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Machine-generated contents note: pt. I Eastern Westerns -- 1. Tears of the Black Tiger and the Southeast Asian Western -- 2. Sukiyaki Western Django, Asian flavour of the Western circuit -- 3. The Good, The Bed, The Weird and the Manchurian Western -- 4. Let the Bullets Fly, a Chinese revolutionary Western -- 5. No Man's Land and Wind Blast, Post-Westerns in the Chinese West -- 6. Sholay, the Western's passage to India -- pt. II Westerns inside and outside of Hollywood -- 7. Django Unchained as an Asian Western -- 8. Dharma and homosexuality in Brokeback Mountain -- 9. The Magnificent Seven, the prototype Eastern Western -- 10. An Asian reading of two Australian Aboriginal Westerns, Jedda and Mystery Road -- 11. Rasa in Once Upon a Time in the West -- 12. Rasa and dharma in John Ford's The Searchers.

Call number

1. MFL 17-63

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.

Author

1. Teo, Stephen, author.

Title

1. Eastern westerns : film and genre outside and inside Hollywood / Stephen Teo.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Media, culture and social change in Asia series
2. Media, culture, and social change in Asia series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.

LCCN

1. 2016020631

Other standard identifier

1. 40026606355

ISBN

1. 9781138819429 hardback
2. 1138819425 hardback

Research call number

1. MFL 17-63