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Keyword : Western
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An examination of some of the important differences between the American western and the Italian (spaghetti) western.

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A theoretical enquiry into the long-standing discourse surrounding genre theory.

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Authors Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis contextualise the German film Ulzhan as a Western which riffs on the classic American genre but within a contemporary multinational, geo-political landscape.

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In this essay on the Australian western The Proposition author James Rose situates the film within the familiar yet strange expanse of the Australian outback, as a space which plays out the age-old Western theme of garden vs. jungle, civilization vs. wildnerness, and the individual vs. the community.

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An introduction to the theme of nostalgia in the films of Sergio Leone.

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An in-depth analysis of Andrew Dominik's fascinating study of melancholia in the guise of a Western

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Author Guan-Soon Khoo looks at the symbiotic relationship between a contemporary Brazilian 'western' (The House of Sand) and earlier American westerns, as well as the science fiction genre.

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A comparative analysis between the styles of Robert Bresson and Sergio Leone.

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A review of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain tracing the film's literary roots in Allegory, Romanticism and Epic poetry.

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A review of Cronenberg's A History of Violence


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