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RASSEGNA STAMPA
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Masculinity & Westerns
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Regenerations at the Turn of the Millennium
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pp. 238
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€ 20,00
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isbn 9788897522836
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Il libro
Despite the many announcements of its death, the western has recently reappeared in American cinema and literature, reinvigorating a tradition that spans from James Fenimore Cooper's Hawkeye to the Lone Ranger and John Wayne. Among the many recent productions, this volume considers American films, literature, and music, produced between 1985 and 2011: movies such as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Roberto Ford, The Ballad of Little Jo, Brokeback Mountain, 3:10 to Yuma, Don't Come Knocking, the TV series Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman, the novels Blood Meridian, God's Country, and hick-hop music. Matching western, men's, literary, and film studies, Bordin reads the western as a gendered cultural product, which comments on pivotal contemporary themes such as issues of fatherhood, homosexuality, gaze, and race and gender appropriations. Building upon Judith Butler's notion of the performative nature of gender, Bordin analyzes how the western interacts with models of American masculinity, confirming the genre's crucial role in the American cultural and ideological landscape at the turn of the new millennium.
L'autrice
Elisa Bordin, Ph.D., teaches American Literature and English Linguistics at the Universities of Padua and Verona. Her field of research embraces gender studies, cinema, and literature of ethnic groups within the U.S. She has published on American language policies, graffiti, African American cinema and Chicano literature; in 2013 she edited the Django Unchained issue of the journal Iperstoria.
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