From Shane To Kill Bill

Author : Patrick McGee
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1405139641

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From Shane to Kill Bill by Patrick McGee Pdf

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film. Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires Deepens an audience’s understanding of the genre’s most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.

Author : Carter Matthew Carter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474402835

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Myth of the Western by Carter Matthew Carter Pdf

What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West?Myth of the Western re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions. Taking a number of critical-theoretical and philosophical approaches, Matthew Carter applies them to prominent forms of frontier historiography. He also considers the historiographic element of the Western by exploring the different ways in which the genre has responded to the issues raised by the frontier. Carter skilfully argues that the genre has - and continues to reveal - the complexities and contradictions at the heart of US society. With its clear analyses of and intellectual challenges to the film scholarship that has developed around the Western over a 65-year period, this book adds new depth to our understanding of specific film texts and of the genre as a whole - a welcome resource for students and scholars in both Film Studies and American Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ingram Entertainment
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002*
Category : Assassins
ISBN : 5557376720

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Kill Bill by Anonim Pdf

A pregnant woman, who is a former assassin, is critically injured on her wedding day by her former employer and cohorts. After spending four years in a coma, she awakens with one thought on her mind, revenge. In Volume 1, the Bride tracks down former assassins O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green leaving a wide trail of carnage in her wake.

Author : David Roche
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496819192

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Quentin Tarantino by David Roche Pdf

Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification. Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how closely the films' poetics and politics are intertwined. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some which have drawn much attention (history, race, gender, violence), others less so (narrative structure, style, music, theatricality). Roche sets Tarantino's films firmly in the legacy of Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, and the New Hollywood, revising the image of a cool pop-culture purveyor that the American director cultivated at the beginning of his career. Roche emphasizes the breadth and depth of his films' engagement with culture, highbrow and lowbrow, screen and print, American, East Asian, and European.

Author : Quentin Tarantino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:225147855

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Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino Pdf

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810892651

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Undead in the West II by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror film. In this new volume, Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming, Miller and Van Riper expand their examination of undead Westerns to include not only film, but literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture (fan fiction, blogging, fan editing, and zombie walks). These essays run the gamut from comics and graphic novels such as American Vampire, Preacher, and Priest, and games like Darkwatch and Red Dead Redemption, to novels and short stories by celebrated writers including Robert E. Howard, Joe R. Lansdale, and Stephen King. Featuring a foreword by renowned science fiction author William F. Nolan (Logan’s Run) and an afterword by acclaimed game designer Paul O’Connor (Darkwatch), this collection will appeal to scholars of literature, gaming, and popular culture, as well as to fans of this unique hybrid.

Author : Katherine E. Sugg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476667850

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Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture by Katherine E. Sugg Pdf

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, global pandemics and dystopian world orders fill our screens--typically with a singular figure or tenacious group tasked with saving or salvaging the world. Why are stories of End Times crisis so popular with audiences? And why is the hero so often a white man who overcomes personal struggles and major obstacles to lead humanity toward a restored future? This book examines the familiar trope of the hero and the recasting of contemporary anxieties in films like The Walking Dead, Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road. Some have familiar roots in Western cultural traditions yet many question popular assumptions about heroes and heroism to tell new and fascinating stories about race, gender and society and the power of individuals to change the world.

Author : Dale Sherman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781495025969

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Quentin Tarantino FAQ by Dale Sherman Pdf

(FAQ). Quentin Tarantino is a man who came to Hollywood and didn't break the rules so much as make plain that he didn't even notice them. Making the films he wanted to see, Tarantino broke through with Reservoir Dogs in 1992 and then cemented his reputation in 1994 with the release of Pulp Fiction . As his fame grew, he spread his love for movies that are far from commonplace through his promotion of older films and theaters and by reviving the stalled careers of actors such as John Travolta, Pam Grier, and David Carradine. Quentin Tarantino FAQ examines the movies directed by Tarantino, the influences on his work, and the inspiration he gave to others. There are also chapters on certain recurring elements in his films, from fake "product placement" to the music, actors, and even cinematic moments used. The book also reviews his work in television, the articles written about him or by him over the years, his acting career, his public battles, and some of the projects he abandoned along the way. It all comes together to tell the story of a man who forged his own unique path and helped shape the way movies are made today.

Author : Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438450254

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The Transatlantic Gaze by Mary Ann McDonald Carolan Pdf

Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present. In The Transatlantic Gaze, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan documents the sustained and profound artistic impact of Italian directors, actors, and screenwriters on American film. Working across a variety of genres, including neorealism, comedy, the Western, and the art film, Carolan explores how and why American directors from Woody Allen to Quentin Tarantino have adapted certain Italian trademark techniques and motifs. Allen’s To Rome with Love (2012), for example, is an homage to the genius of Italian filmmakers, and to Federico Fellini in particular, whose Lo sceicco bianco/The White Sheik (1952) also resonates with Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) as well as with Neil LaBute’s Nurse Betty (2000). Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga (2003, 2004) plays off elements of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Western C’era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a transatlantic conversation about the Western that continues in Tarantino’s Oscar-winning Django Unchained (2012). Lee Daniels’s Precious (2009) and Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna (2008), meanwhile, demonstrate that the neorealism of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, which arose from the political and economic exigencies of postwar Italy, is an effective vehicle for critiquing social issues such as poverty and racism in a contemporary American context. The book concludes with an examination of American remakes of popular Italian films, a comparison that offers insight into the similarities and differences between the two cultures and the transformations in genre, both subtle and obvious, that underlie this form of cross-cultural exchange.

Author : Flavia Brizio-Skov
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476641911

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Ride the Frontier by Flavia Brizio-Skov Pdf

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation and hybridity. The author covers a range of largely unexplored topics, including the role of "heroines" in a (supposedly) male-oriented system of film production, the function of the celluloid Indians, the transcultural and transnational history of the first spaghetti Western, the construction of femininity and masculinity in the hybrid Westerns of the 1950s, and the new paths of the Western in the 21st century.

Author : Peter C. Mowrey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476682389

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The Hero's Trail by Peter C. Mowrey Pdf

The great American Westerns can be profoundly meaningful when read metaphorically. More than mere shoot 'em up entertainment, they are an essential part of a vibrant, evolving national mythology. Like other versions of the archetypal Hero's Journey, these films are filled with insights about life, love, nature, society, ethics, beauty and what it means to be human, and are key to understanding American culture. Part film guide, part historical survey, this book explores the mythic and artistic elements in 52 great Westerns--some orthodox, some subversive--from the genre's first half-century. Each film is given detailed critical analysis, from the earliest silent movies to Golden Age classics like Red River (1948), High Noon (1952) and Shane (1953).

Author : Mary Lea Bandy,Kevin Stoehr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520953475

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Ride, Boldly Ride by Mary Lea Bandy,Kevin Stoehr Pdf

This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens. While providing fresh perspectives on landmarks such as Stagecoach, Red River, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Wild Bunch, the authors also pay tribute to many under-appreciated Westerns. Ride, Boldly Ride explores major phases of the Western’s development, including silent era oaters, A-production classics of the 1930s and early 1940s, and the more psychologically complex portrayals of the Westerner that emerged after World War II. The authors also examine various forms of genre-revival and genre-revisionism that have recurred over the past half-century, culminating especially in the masterworks of Clint Eastwood. They consider themes such as the inner life of the Western hero, the importance of the natural landscape, the roles played by women, the tension between myth and history, the depiction of the Native American, and the juxtaposing of comedy and tragedy. Written in clear, engaging prose, this is the only survey that encompasses the entire history of this long-lived and much-loved genre.

Author : R. Sodi,M. Marcus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119673

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New Reflections on Primo Levi by R. Sodi,M. Marcus Pdf

This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and revealing byways (Levi and Calvino, or Levi and theater, for example).

Author : Lester D. Friedman,David Desser
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813586045

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Tough Ain't Enough by Lester D. Friedman,David Desser Pdf

Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also remains a controversial figure in the political landscape, often characterized as the most prominent conservative voice in mostly liberal Hollywood. At Eastwood’s late age, his critical success as actor and director, his combative willingness to confront serious cultural issues in his films, and his undeniable talent behind the camera all call for a new and comprehensive study that considers and contextualizes his multiple roles, both on and off screen. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars that explore the actor-director’s extensive career. The result is a far-reaching and nuanced portrait of one of America’s most prolific and thoughtful filmmakers.

Author : Patrick McGee
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 140513965X

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From Shane to Kill Bill by Patrick McGee Pdf

From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film. Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires Deepens an audience’s understanding of the genre’s most important works, including Shane, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Unforgiven, and Kill Bill Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.