دانلود کتاب French Westerns: On the Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema

The first scholarly monograph dedicated to the French Western film
Examines an overlooked body of film whose production spans the history of cinema
Advances the recovery of popular European cinema
Nuances the positioning of film as a transnational mode of cultural production
Provocatively asserts the French Western’s non-existence to open a singular perspective on an emblematic film genre in film scholarship, theory, and criticism
The production of films that may be called both ‘French’ and ‘western’ spans the history of cinema, and includes the films by celebrated stars and directors. However, with the exception of early silent production, French westerns are overlooked in studies of French cinema, of film genre, and even of the ‘transnational’ western.

French Westerns: The Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema is the first scholarly monograph dedicated to these films. This study advances the recovery of popular European cinema and adds new dimension to the understanding of the western genre. However, the purpose is not to stretch existing definitions of the genre or the national cinema to accommodate this production. Instead, these films expose and exploit the acts of imagination to which the logics of ‘French Cinema’ and ‘Western’ owe their coherence: acts that fail repeatedly, productively, and at times spectacularly.