The Western in the Global South

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The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures Preface: "Coming back to bad it up": The Posthumous and the Post-Western Acknowledgments Introduction: The Western in the Global South PART I: Colonial Circulations of the Western in the Global South 1 The Western in Colonial Southern Africa 2 Cassava Westerns: Theorizing the Pleasures of Playing the Outlaw in Africa 3 The Italian (Southern) Western: From Colonial Cinema to Spaghetti Western 4 From Django to Django Unchained – Love Narratives in the Global South PART II: The Western in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean 5 In the Crossfire: Africa, Cinema, and violence in Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako (2006) 6 Trashing the Western's Revenge Narrative in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt 7 Cowboys and West Indians: Decolonizing the Western and Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come PART III: The Western in Australia and Asia 8 Aboriginal Cowboys? On the Possibilities of the Western in Australia's Far West 9 Tears of the Black Tiger: The Western and Thai Cinema 10 Tamil B Movie Westerns: The Global South and Genre Subversion PART IV: South American, Mexican and Borderlands Westerns 11 An 'Imperfect' Genre: Rethinking Politics in Latin American Westerns 12 Landscaping the Western: Ciro Guerra's The Wind Journeys (2009) 13 Carlos Bolado's Bajo California: Crossing Borders and Dislocating the Western Tradition 14 Disinterring the Western in Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and No Country for Old Men Contributors Index