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Staring down the barrel
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portrayals of Black heroes in the westerns of the 1970s and today
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Portrayals of Black heroes in the westerns of the 1970s and today
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Rutkowski
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John
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1989-
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Allen
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Carol J.
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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2013
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The scope and topic of my thesis project is to investigate the figure of the black western hero, primarily in films from the 1970s. I analyze Sydney Poitier’s Buck and the Preacher (1972), Martin Goldman’s The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972), and Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles (1974). My argument rests in the consideration of filmmakers who use western tropes and cultural cues to provide an alternate understanding of American social and racial realities by incorporating blackness into this tradition. On a grander scale my thesis topic forces re-evaluations of the usual questions of mimesis, genre reproduction, and authorship that plague film study. To ground my study in theories of visual representation, I use Laura Mulvey’s concept of visual pleasure and gazing in film and Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of colonial mimicry. My thesis project argues that studying the black western protagonist brings forth questions of American artistic, economic, and socio-political realities. I also look at a recent manifestation of this phenomenon, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), to grasp what about these realities has changed and what has remained constant.
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Supplementary File: Fig. 1
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iii, 51 p. : ill.
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M.A.
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by John Rutkowski
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Blacks in motion pictures
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Western films
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Poitier, Sidney.--Buck and The Preacher.
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Goldman, Martin.--Legend of Nigger Charley.
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Brooks, Mel,--1926- .--Blazing Saddles.
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Tarantino, Quentin.--Django Unchained.
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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