Neo Frontier Cinema: Rewriting the Frontier Narrative from the Margins in Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010), Songs My Brother Taught Me (Chloe Zhao, 2015) and The Rider (Chloe Zhao, 2017)

This article discusses Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and Chloe Zhao’s Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015) and The Rider (2017) as contemporary rewritings of the Western genre and frontier mythology. I argue that the three films play the mythologies of the American West against the realities a...

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Main Author: Hervé Mayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 2019-04-01
Series:Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/16672