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French Westerns: On the Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema

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Availability:In StockContributor:Timothy ScheiePublish date:2024-01-12Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399520379ISBN-10:1399520377UPC:9781399520379Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:History & Criticism, ReferenceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SC0HZDXAVT

The production of films that may be called both 'French' and 'western' spans the history of cinema, and includes the films by celebrated stars and directors. However, with the exception of early silent production, French westerns are overlooked in studies of French cinema, of film genre and even of the 'transnational' western.
French Westerns: The Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema is the first scholarly monograph dedicated to these films. This study advances the recovery of popular European cinema, and adds new dimension to the understanding of the western genre. However, the purpose is not to stretch existing definitions of the genre or the national cinema to accommodate this production. Instead, these films expose and exploit the acts of imagination to which the logics of 'French Cinema' and 'Western' owe their coherence: acts that fail repeatedly, productively, and at times spectacularly.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399520379ISBN-10:1399520377UPC:9781399520379Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:History & Criticism, ReferenceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SC0HZDXAVT

Timothy Scheie in an Associate Professor of French at University of Rochester, where he researches and teaches courses on cinema, theatre and performance, and French literature. His first book, Performance Degree Zero: Roland Barthes and Theatre, was published in 2006, and his articles may be found in Screen, Studies in French Cinema, French Forum, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, College Literature, and Essays in Theater / Etudes théatrales.


Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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