Transnationalism and Imperialism: New Perspectives on the Western

Vidéos
Seung-Hwan Shin (University of Pittsburgh), "North by West: The Manchurian Western and Minoritarian…
Reflecting on the Western’s development after WWII, André Bazin noted, “Its roots continue to spread under the Hollywood humus and…robust suckers spring up in the midst of the seductive but sterile
Samira Nadkarni (Independent Scholar), "Chhattisgarh as India’s Frontier: Reading Masurkar’s Newton…
Amit V. Masurkar’s 2017 film, Newton is simultaneously a satire and reconfirmation of the myths of democratic nationhood, exploring a postcolonial narrative of internal colonisation in the creation
Jesus Angel Gonzalez Lopez (Universidad de Cantabria, Santander), "Transnational Post-Westerns in F…
The concept of transnational post-Westerns stems from Neil Campbell’s definition of post-Westerns as films “coming after and going beyond the traditional Western [genre] while engaging with and
Hadrien Fontanaud (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), • “Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962): Refra…
Filmed in 1962, Lawrence of Arabia offers a critical look on British imperialism. Yet this British and American co-production draws on the Empire films of the 1930’s: it focuses on one of the
Delphine Robic-Diaz (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), “Claude Bernard-Aubert's Les Tripes au …
Claude Bernard-Aubert est un ancien combattant d'Indochine
Fareed Ben-Youssef (NYU Shanghai), “'Just Make Me Look Good’: The Duel Against Mythic Representatio…
Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao has established herself as a foremost chronicler of the experience of Native American youth. Her Westerns—"Songs My Brother Taught Me" (2015) and "The Rider" (2017)
Table ronde "Contemporary Western FIlm Studies"
Roundtable on Contemporary Western Film Studies Chair: Hervé Mayer, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 With, from left to right, Matthew Carter (Manchester Metropolitan University), Andrew Patrick
Marek Paryz (University of Warsaw), “Unwanted Salvation: The Use of the Savior Formula in Andreas P…
The Austrian film The Dark Valley (dir. Andreas Prochaska, 2014) provides a unique attestation to the applicability of the convention of the Western for problematizing context-specific social and
Jenny Barrett (Edge Hill University), “(Not) John Wayne and (Not) the American West in Jauja (2014)…
Until Jauja (2014), Argentine director Lisandro had filmed only contemporary stories of isolated men in a long-take, observational style with non-professional actors, said to centre on ‘men who
Céline Murillo (Université Sorbonne Paris Cité), “The Mimic Indians in Westerns : a Transnational C…
When Nobody, the native American character in Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995), recounts his travels as “an exhibit” in Europe, he explains that, to avoid attracting the attention he started to imitate
Costanza Salvi (Bologna University), “John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy: American Imperialism or Irish Re…
Loosely based on James Warner Bellah’s stories published on Saturday Evening Post, Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950) are pervaded with a jingoism totally
Patrick Adamson (University of St Andrews), "Transnationalism and the Transcontinental Railroad: Ex…
The Covered Wagon (1923) has long been regarded as a landmark in the development of both the western genre and the historical film. Paramount’s epic, along with the cycle of large-form westerns