When the West Meets the South on Screen
Like the classic movies on the Far West, the quintessential film narratives of the Deep South have greatly impacted the popular understanding of American history and American values. While the canonized Western has relentlessly foregrounded the idea of individual freedom and the conquest of the wild...
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Abstract | Like the classic movies on the Far West, the quintessential film narratives of the Deep South have greatly impacted the popular understanding of American history and American values. While the canonized Western has relentlessly foregrounded the idea of individual freedom and the conquest of the wilderness, the more elusive and controversial Southern genre bears the persistent ideological traces of slavery and segregation. However, this Revue LISA/LISA e-journal issue “When the West/ern meets the South/ern” explores the jarring and often unexpected connections between the two basically distinct generic categories, well before the 2012 release of Django unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s provocatively Westernized Southern (or Southernized Western). Numerous earlier films were already engaged in a play with the representational codes of the West and the South in cinema and literature. When the Western and the Southern cross and blend, the resultant “genre trouble” generates a more complex image of America, challenging its grand narratives and myths.
À l’instar des films classiques sur le Far West, les récits cinématographiques sur le Sud profond (« the Deep South ») ont considérablement influencé la compréhension populaire de l’histoire et des valeurs américaines. Alors que l’Ouest canonique a inlassablement mis en avant l’idée de la liberté individuelle et celle de la conquête de la wilderness, le genre Southern, plus controversé et plus difficile à cerner, continue à porter les stigmates de l’esclavage et de la ségrégation. Pourtant, ce numéro spécial de la Revue LISA/LISA e-journal intitulé « Quand l’Ouest rencontre le Sud à l’écran » explore les rapprochements, souvent inattendus et stimulants, entre deux catégories génériques a priori distinctes, bien avant Django Unchained de Quentin Tarantino (2012), un Southern westernien (ou un Western southernien). De nombreux films antérieurs jouaient déjà avec les codes de représentations de l’Ouest et du Sud à l’écran et dans la littérature. Lorsque le Western et le Southern se croisent et s’hybrident, le « trouble dans le genre » qui en résulte génère une image plus complexe de l’Amérique tout en interrogeant ses grands récits et mythes. |
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AbstractList | Like the classic movies on the Far West, the quintessential film narratives of the Deep South have greatly impacted the popular understanding of American history and American values. While the canonized Western has relentlessly foregrounded the idea of individual freedom and the conquest of the wilderness, the more elusive and controversial Southern genre bears the persistent ideological traces of slavery and segregation. However, this Revue LISA/LISA e-journal issue “When the West/ern meets the South/ern” explores the jarring and often unexpected connections between the two basically distinct generic categories, well before the 2012 release of Django unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s provocatively Westernized Southern (or Southernized Western). Numerous earlier films were already engaged in a play with the representational codes of the West and the South in cinema and literature. When the Western and the Southern cross and blend, the resultant “genre trouble” generates a more complex image of America, challenging its grand narratives and myths.
À l’instar des films classiques sur le Far West, les récits cinématographiques sur le Sud profond (« the Deep South ») ont considérablement influencé la compréhension populaire de l’histoire et des valeurs américaines. Alors que l’Ouest canonique a inlassablement mis en avant l’idée de la liberté individuelle et celle de la conquête de la wilderness, le genre Southern, plus controversé et plus difficile à cerner, continue à porter les stigmates de l’esclavage et de la ségrégation. Pourtant, ce numéro spécial de la Revue LISA/LISA e-journal intitulé « Quand l’Ouest rencontre le Sud à l’écran » explore les rapprochements, souvent inattendus et stimulants, entre deux catégories génériques a priori distinctes, bien avant Django Unchained de Quentin Tarantino (2012), un Southern westernien (ou un Western southernien). De nombreux films antérieurs jouaient déjà avec les codes de représentations de l’Ouest et du Sud à l’écran et dans la littérature. Lorsque le Western et le Southern se croisent et s’hybrident, le « trouble dans le genre » qui en résulte génère une image plus complexe de l’Amérique tout en interrogeant ses grands récits et mythes. |
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