| Description |
1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Ce genre qui n'en est pas un -- 2. Imagined (and unimaginable) communities of film -- 3. The curious geographies of Arizona Bill -- 4. The modernity of tradition and the cinematic Camargue -- 5. The return of the western repressed -- 6. Little colony on the prairie -- 7. The language of stars on the francophone frontier -- 8. Cowboy and alien: the Bardot western -- 9. Spaghetti and camembert -- 10. East meets west(ern) -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
| Notes |
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 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Western films -- France -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- France -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production.
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Films, cinema.
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Performing Arts.
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| Genre/Form |
Film criticism.
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Critiques cinématographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781399520393 |
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1399520393 |
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9781399520409 |
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1399520407 |
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