ORAL HISTORY AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE: Posse and Once Upon a Time in Mexico

In the introduction to his The Western Reader Jim Kitses observes that the Western film, a genre long-heralded as the “cornerstone of American identity,” (16) is itself not exempt from an undertaking of racial and cultural revisionism. He points to a resurgence of films from the 1990’s that, in an e...

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Main Author:	Adam Wadenius
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Published:	University of Edinburgh 2009
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7abcdc5156c44c949d51af4b3466dc802021-11-23T09:46:00ZORAL HISTORY AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE: Posse and Once Upon a Time in Mexico1749-9771https://doaj.org/article/7abcdc5156c44c949d51af4b3466dc802009-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/631https://doaj.org/toc/1749-9771In the introduction to his The Western Reader Jim Kitses observes that the Western film, a genre long-heralded as the “cornerstone of American identity,” (16) is itself not exempt from an undertaking of racial and cultural revisionism. He points to a resurgence of films from the 1990’s that, in an era of multi-culturalism, hybridity, and counter-strategies, have functioned to redefine the codes of the traditional Western, bringing to life the postmodern Western. The subversive politics of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995), and Maggie Greenwald’s The Ballad of Little Jo (1993), are two such examples.Adam WadeniusUniversity of EdinburgharticleFine ArtsNLanguage and LiteraturePENForum, Iss 09 (2009)
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ORAL HISTORY AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE: Posse and Once Upon a Time in Mexico

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