Gutenberg Open Science: The inner frontier : images of the USA in recent Western cinema (2000

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dc.contributor.author	Stiglegger, Marcus	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-19T09:32:11Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-12-19T09:32:11Z	-
dc.date.issued	2022	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/8358	-
dc.description.abstract	At the heart of the American western cinema lies the myth. And the western myth is closely linked to the frontier, that boundary between civilization and wilderness that is constantly being negotiated. The frontier mythology is an integral part of scholarly writing on the western, and especially works well with the classical western of the studio era, where the dichotomy of wilderness and civilization had been considered the key to the genre. The following study will go back to the original term frontier, Frederick Jackson Turner’s concept of frontier mythology and Matthias Waechter’s re-reading of this mythology, and will seek for a new angle to discuss recent westerns in the light of current events. This is necessary as most of the exemples may look like westerns, but most of them are only told in the mode of a western or use the classical form and iconography to aim for something different than in earlier decades. Genre cinema has become more of a discourse today which is not created according to a classical formula any more. This article takes this fact into account and will furthermore show that the outer boundary between civilization and wilderness is turned inward in films of the last decade: This means that the ‘stranger’ is part of the self, the abject lurks in one’s own forests and mountains–or in one’s own micro-society, even if films are only told in Western mode, such as the crime thriller ‘Wind River’ (2017) by Taylor Sheridan.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 491381577	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	791 Öffentliche Darbietungen	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	791 Public performances	en_GB
dc.title	The inner frontier : images of the USA in recent Western cinema (2000–2020)	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8342	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie	de
jgu.organisation.number	7920	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	GeoJournal	de
jgu.journal.volume	87	de
jgu.pages.start	141	de
jgu.pages.end	150	de
jgu.publisher.year	2022	-
jgu.publisher.name	Springer Science + Business Media B.V.	de
jgu.publisher.place	Dordrecht u.a.	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1572-9893	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	791	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1007/s10708-022-10659-8	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
jgu.subject.dfg	Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
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