[csaa-forum] “The Other Western”: Transformations Issue 24

[Baden Offord]

Dear CSAA Colleagues,

Issue 24 of the Transformations Journal, “The Other Western”, is now live. Edited by Grayson Cooke, Warwick Mules and David Baker, this issue explores the film genre of the Western as a global phenomenon, exploring the international take-up of the Western and presenting new readings of classic Western film texts.

Please feel free to circulate this announcement to peers and colleagues who may be interested in the topic. The issue can be found at the following URL:

http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/24/ed.shtml

The Table of Contents is as follows:

“Do I look Mexican?”: Translating the Western Beyond National Borders
>> Chelsea Wessels

The Singing Cowboys: Sholay and the Significance of (Indian) Curry Westerns within Post-Colonial Narratives
>> Madhuja Mukherjee

Whither the Australian Western? Performing Genre and the Archive in Outback and Beyond
>> Grayson Cooke

Hollywood Westerns and the Pacific: John Kneubuhl and The Wild Wild West
>> Sarina Pearson

“I Knew Killing a Man Would Kill You”: Lucky Luke Shaped by Myth and History
>> Annick Pellegrin

The Night-Time Town as an Alternative Space in the Western Genre
>> Pete Falconer

Anthony Mann’s Film Westerns: Mise-en-scène and the Total Image in Bend of the River
>> Helen Miller and Warwick Mules

Mann and Woman: the Function of the Feminine in the “Noir Westerns” of Anthony Mann
>> David Baker and Danielle Zuvela

Hybridity, Agency and the Distribution of Whiteness in The Searchers
>> Birgitta Frello


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Baden Offord, Ph.D.
Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights

Director, Community Engagement
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Southern Cross University

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