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

该项目旨在重新绘制流派理论，以便使其与跨国电影研究和迅速发展的世界电影现实相关联和新的指示。这篇论文将用西方的精英殖民主义价值观重新定位和校准西方类型研究的概念，通过论证对该体系进行彻底去西化的必要性，以保持好莱坞以外的所有其他电影作为其他电影存在于一个思想受制于其殖民主义规则但实际上更加充满活力、独特和独立的世界。基于这样一条戒律：如果一个人可以去西化西方电影流派，那么他就可以去西化任何流派。本文分析了西方流派的肖像、叙事、风格和暴力倾向在世界范围内的反复，旨在重新映射西方作为美国电影制作人独有遗产的倒退观念和21世纪世界电影的复兴主义进步。为了避免传统类型研究的停滞，并将该项目整合到世界电影理论中，本文将效仿肖哈特和斯塔姆对1994年不假思索的欧洲中心主义的呼吁。它不会设计西方与其他国家之间的对立，而是将从其他国家的角度来看待西方，并将提出一个新的西部轮廓，在这个轮廓中，电影将被与当地的地区或国家话语联系在一起，但也将作为全球化和相互联系的表现。然后，西部将被设计为世界电影竞争的中心，作为一个案例研究，可以外推到其他类型和电影。拟议的论文建立在我成功通过的研究学位论文《一把枪自己的性别在当代西部电影中的表现》的基础上，这篇论文研究了西部在当前女权主义和身份斗争中所经历的变化，如米克斯、切断姜戈、解放上帝和西部世界。我也在《作为文学的电视连续剧：从平凡到不可想象》一书中的一章和我即将出版的《量子吉诃德神话与多重性》一书中的一章中探讨了这些问题。这些结果显示了我的准备经验和开展这项研究的承诺。

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.