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Biografisk notat
John White teaches film studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He is co-editor of Fifty Key British Films (Routledge, 2008), Fifty Key American Films (Routledge, 2009) and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films (Routledge, 2014). He recently contributed chapters to books on Budd Boetticher and Delmer Daves in the Edinburgh University Press ReFocus series, and is the author of Westerns (Routledge, 2011) and European Art Cinema (Routledge, 2017).
White's discussion, his notes and bibliography, guide readers through the distinctive scholarship on the historical film since 9/11.
- Mike Kugler, Northwestern College, Great Plains Quarterly
The Contemporary Western offers a judicious interjection into a scholarly field currently dominated by transnational explorations. In refocusing the critical lens on the Western as a specifically American form, it illuminates the complex interplay between post-9/11 politics and established mythologies, demonstrating the genre’s continuing ability to shape the ideological perceptions of America’s popular-cultural imaginary.
- Matthew Carter, Senior Lecturer in Film, Manchester Metropolitan University,
White's discussion, his notes and bibliography, guide readers through the distinctive scholarship on the historical film since 9/11.
- Mike Kugler, Northwestern College, Great Plains Quarterly
The Contemporary Western offers a judicious interjection into a scholarly field currently dominated by transnational explorations. In refocusing the critical lens on the Western as a specifically American form, it illuminates the complex interplay between post-9/11 politics and established mythologies, demonstrating the genre’s continuing ability to shape the ideological perceptions of America’s popular-cultural imaginary.
- Matthew Carter, Senior Lecturer in Film, Manchester Metropolitan University,