The Western in the Global South [Hardcover]

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.

Preface Neil Campbell  Introduction MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz  Part 1: Colonial Circulations of the Western in the Global South  1. The Western in Colonial Southern Africa James Burns  2. Cassava Westerns: Theorizing the Pleasures of Playing the Outlaw in Africa Tsitsi Jaji  3. The Italian (Southern) Western: From Colonial Cinema to Spaghetti Western Giovanna Trento  4. From Djangoto Django Unchained  Love Narratives in the Global South Clifford T. Manlove  Part 2: The Western in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean  5. In the Crossfire: Africa, Cinema, and Violence in Abderrahmane Sissakos Bamako(2006) Dayna Oscherwitz  6. Trashing the Westerns Revenge Narrative in Mahamat-Saleh Harouns Daratt MaryEllen Higgins  7. Cowboys and West Indians: Decolonizing the Wel&