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The Western has traditionally offered American film directors a rich canvas to express visions of the American past. This volume revisits the Western in a transnational context, exploring the role of auteurism. Stars like Jimmy Stewart and international films like Aferim! and Inglourious Basterds are analysed in this new approach to the genre.

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According to Jim Kitses (1969), the Western originally offered American directors a rich canvas to express a singular authorial vision of the American past and its significance. The Western´s recognizable conventions and symbols, rich filmic heritage, and connections to pulp fiction created a widely spoken "language" for self-expression and supplemented each filmmaker´s power to express their vision of American society. This volume seeks to re-examine the significance of auteur theory for the Western by analysing the auteur director "unbridled" by traditional definitions or national contexts.

This book renders a complex portrait of the Western auteur by considering the genre in a transnational context. It proposes that narrow views of auteurism should be reconsidered in favour of broader definitions that see meaning created, both intentionally and unintentionally, by a director; by other artistic contributors, including actors and the audience; or through the intersection with other theoretical concepts such as re-allegorization. In so doing, it illuminates the Western as a vehicle for expressing complex ideas of national and transnational identity.

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CONTENTS: Emma Hamilton/Alistair Rolls: Editors on Auteurs: Thoughts on Auteurism from the Frontier - Alex Davis: The Star Auteur: Jimmy Stewart Out West - Tom Ue: Pastiche, Genre and Violence in Quentin Tarantino´s Inglourious Basterds - Emma Hamilton: "Probably a White Fella": Rolf de Heer, The Tracker and the Limits of Auteurism - Matthew Carter: The Post-apocalyptic Frontier: Reappropriating Western Violence for Feminism in Mad Max: Fury Road - Marek Paryz: Narrative (Il)Logic and the Problem of Character Motivation in Sergio Corbucci´s Revenge Westerns - Lee Broughton: Adaptation, Transculturation and the Western Auteur: Louis L´Amour, Peter Collinson and The Man Called Noon - Maria Ioni a: Auteurism versus Genre in the Romanian New Wave: Radu Jude´s Interpretation of Western Tropes in Aferim! - Alistair Rolls/Emma Hamilton/Clara Sitbon: Auteur is French for Author, too: Translating Other Afterthoughts Inspired by King Vidor´s Duel in the Sun into French Literature - Joyleen Christensen: "East meets West meets East again": The Good, The Bad, The Weird and the Transnational Dialogue of Auteurs - Omar Ahmed: The Indian Western: Revisiting Sholay and the Dacoit Film as Transnational Exegesis.

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