The western, one of Hollywood’s great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other pa
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English Year 2017
Table of contents :
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
11. Rasa in Once Upon a Time in the West
12. Rasa and Dharma in John Ford’s The Searchers