De-Westernising the Western: Remapping Genre and Nation in World Cinema

西方去西方化：重新映射世界电影的类型和国家

• 批准号: 2239657
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2239657
• 关键词: De; Westernising; Western; Remapping; Genre

This project aims to remap genre theory in order to make it newly relevant and freshly indicative of transnational film studies and the rapidly evolving reality of World Cinema. This thesis will re-orient and re calibrate western conceptions of genre studies with their elitist colonialist values by demonstrating the need for a radical dewesternisation of the system that maintains all other cinemas beyond Hollywood as other in a world thought subject to its colonialist rules but actually infinitely more vibrant unique and independent. Based on the precept that if one can dewesternise the Western film genre then one can dewesternise any genre this thesis analyses worldwide iterations of the iconography narratives stylistic tropes and violent tendencies of the Western genre in order to remap both the retrograde concept of the Western as exclusive heritage of American filmmakers and the progressive in surrectionism of World Cinema in the twenty first century.In order to avoid the stagnation of traditional genre studies and to integrate the project within World Cinema theory this thesis will follow Shohat and Stam in their call for unthinking Eurocentrism 1994. Instead of devising an opposition between the West and the rest it will look at the West from the perspective of the rest and will propose a new outline of the Western where films will be approached in relation to their local regional or national discourses but also as manifestations of globalisation and interconnectedness. The Western will then be devised as a locus for World Cinema contestation that as a case study can be extrapolated into other genres and cinemas.The proposed thesis builds on my successfully passed MA by Research dissertation A Gun of Ones Own Gender Representation in Contemporary Westerns, which studied the changes undergone by the Western within the current feminist and identity struggles in features such as Meeks Cutoff Django Unchained Godless and Westworld. I have also explored these issues in a chapter in the volume TV Series as Literature: From the Ordinary to the Unthinkable and my forthcoming chapter in the volume Quantum Quixote Myth and Multiplicity. These outputs show my preparedness experience and commitment to undertake this research.

该项目旨在重新映射类型理论，使其与跨国电影研究和快速发展的世界电影现实具有新的相关性和新的代表性。本论文将通过论证对制度进行彻底的非西方化的必要性，将西方类型研究的概念与其精英殖民主义价值观重新定位和校准，该制度将好莱坞以外的所有其他电影院视为世界上的其他电影院，被认为受其殖民主义规则的影响，但实际上无限更加充满活力，独特和独立。基于“如果一个人能够将西方电影类型去西方化，那么我们就能够对任何类型进行去西方化”，本文分析了西方类型的图像叙事、风格修辞和暴力倾向在世界范围内的迭代，以重新映射西方电影作为美国电影制片人的专有遗产的倒退概念和二十一世纪世界电影的激进主义进步。 传统流派研究的停滞，并将该项目纳入世界电影理论，本论文将追随肖哈特和斯塔姆在 1994 年呼吁不假思索的欧洲中心主义。它不会在西方与其他国家之间建立对立，而是从其他国家的角度来看待西方，并提出一个新的西方轮廓，其中电影将被视为与当地区域或国家话语相关的电影，同时也被视为全球化和全球化的表现。 相互关联性。然后，西部片将被设计为世界电影争论的焦点，作为一个案例研究，可以推断到其他流派和电影。这篇论文建立在我成功通过研究论文《当代西部片中自己的性别代表之枪》的硕士学位之上，该论文研究了西部片在当前女权主义和身份斗争中所经历的变化，例如《米克斯·切断》、《被解放的姜戈》和《西部世界》等影片。我还在《电视连续剧作为文学：从平凡到不可思议》一书中的一章以及我即将在《量子吉诃德神话与多重性》一书中探讨了这些问题。这些成果显示了我的准备经验和进行这项研究的承诺。