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Eastern Westerns Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood

284 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

284 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

284 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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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... Read more

Part 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 Bad, 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

Part II: Westerns Inside and Outside of Hollywood

7. Django Unchained as Asian Western

8. Dharma and Sexuality in Brokeback Mountain

9. The Magnificent Seven, the Prototype Eastern Western

10. An Asian Reading of Two Australian Aboriginal Westerns, Jedda and Mystery Road