Reframing Cult Westerns

Dr. Lee Broughton is a freelance writer, critic, film programmer and lecturer in film and cultural studies. He is the author of The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film (2016) and the editor of Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained (2016). He has contributed chapters and articles to numerous edited collections and academic journals.

[An] exceptional look at what has become of the contemporary western.

• Introduction: Cult Westerns and Cult FilmsLee BroughtonPart One: Classic Cult Westerns1. “It seemed like a good idea at the time”: Hollywood, Homology and Hired Guns – The Making of The Magnificent SevenPaul Kerr, Middlesex University, UK2. The Historical Accuracy of Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the UglyPeter J. Hanley, University of Münster, Germany3. Where White Men Dream Out Loud: Robert Altman’s WestCynthia J. Miller, Emerson College4. The Gold Rush: The New Right and the Westerns of 1980Craig Ian Mann, Sheffield Hallam University, UKPart Two: Charting New Frontiers and Mapping Identity and Politics in International Cult Westerns5. Landscape, imagery and symbolism in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El TopoMatt Melia, Kingston University, UK6. Dancing with Death: Whity, a Singular WesternHamish Ford, University of Newcastle, Australia7. Man of the West: Dean Reed’s (Cinematic) Frontier Personas in Blood Brothers and Sing, Cowboy, Sing!Sonja Simonyi, independent scholar, Hungary 8. An(Other) West: The Limits of National Identity in The PropositionChelsea Wessels, East Tennessee State University, USAPart Three: Contemporary Cult Westerns and Contemporary Concerns9. The return of the repressed: locating the supernatural in US Civil War WesternsLee Broughton (Independent scholar, UK)10. Stranger and Friend: Non-American Westerns and the Immigrant in the Twenty-First CenturyJenny Barrett, Edge Hill University, UK11. The Intrusion of Climate in The RevenantJack Weatherston, independent scholar, UK12. “Hand in hand we’ll get there”: The Racial Politics of The Hateful EightThomas Moodie, freelance writer and script supervisor, UKList of ContributorsIndex