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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: French + Western
Chapter 1. Ce genre qui n'en est pas un
Chapter 2. Imagined (and Unimaginable) Communities of Film
Part II: The Wild, Wild Midi
Chapter 3. The Curious Geographies of Arizona Bill
Chapter 4. The Modernity of Tradition and the Cinematic Camargue
Chapter 5. The Return of the Western Repressed
Part III: Chez nous on the Range
Chapter 6. Little Colony on the Prairie
Chapter 7. The Language of Stars on the Francophone Frontier
Chapter 8. Cowboy and Alien: the Bardot Western
Part IV: The Baguette Western
Chapter 9. Spaghetti and Camembert
Chapter 10. East Meets West(ern)
Epilogue
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
