McDonald / Johnson The Spectral West

Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83998-793-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Anthem Film and Culture

This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. These dark and sinister undertones often exist in Western narratives to draw attention to the ever-present issue of death and its haunting resonance which characters encounter. This book examines this through key historic moments in Western film and its contemporary incarnations. The book detects imposing correlations in themes and currents between the Gothic and the Western relating to existential crisis and a loss of faith in ideologies and institutions. These themes represent the tensions between the old and the new, the deranged insistence on civility and order in a chaotic landscape, disillusionment and the shattering of faith in the natural order, and even nature and order themselves. The Western, just like the Gothic tale, reminds us that new frontiers are mired in the past, and optimism and survival are hunted down and haunted by guilt-ridden past and passed anxieties and traumas

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonald, Keith

Johnson, Wayne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Andere Graphische Kunstformen