“The Old Wild West in the New Middle East”: American Sniper (2014) and the Global Frontiers of the Western Genre
Clint Eastwood’s war film American Sniper (2014), based on the autobiography of (in)famous Navy Seals sniper Chris Kyle, was met on release with considerable commercial success and political controversy. This article investigates how through adopting generic structures and binary oppositions of the...
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European Association for American Studies
2017-08-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12086 |