Band 277
Violence and Open Spaces The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre
Aus der Reihe
American Studies. A Monograph Series
Fr. 71.90
inkl. gesetzl. MwSt.,
Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
24.04.2017
Abbildungen
2 Abbildungen
Herausgeber
Stefanie Mueller + weitereVerlag
Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH HeidelbergSeitenzahl
203
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/13.9/2 cm
Gewicht
336 g
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-8253-6674-2
The classic Western film is characterized by the tension of open and enclosed spaces as well as by the lone hero’s exposure to the vastness of both tempting and dangerous spaces. John Ford’s cinematography in particular has contributed to a specific spatial iconography that is premised on this tension and that survives, albeit transformed, in contemporary (Neo-) Western films. While scholars of the Western genre have long acknowledged a connection between space and violence – beginning with Frederick Jackson Turner’s famous description of the Western frontier – the essays in this collection provide a fresh perspective.
Taking Norbert Elias’ ‘The Civilizing Process’ (1939) and its insights into the interdependence between habitus formation, spatial reorganization and the emergence of a state monopoly of violence as their point of departure, they analyze contemporary visions of open and bounded spaces as well as of the liminal spaces between them in recent films and TV shows.
Taking Norbert Elias’ ‘The Civilizing Process’ (1939) and its insights into the interdependence between habitus formation, spatial reorganization and the emergence of a state monopoly of violence as their point of departure, they analyze contemporary visions of open and bounded spaces as well as of the liminal spaces between them in recent films and TV shows.
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