Open AccessWOMAN OF THE WEST – GENRE, GENDER, AND POLITICS IN JOHNNY GUITAR
Author(s) -
Antônio João Teixeira
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
revista letras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2236-0999
pISSN - 0100-0888
DOI - 10.5380/rel.v78i0.14501
Subject(s) - art , humanities , guitar , politics , physics , acoustics , political science , law
Johnny Guitar ’s plot challenges many of the conventions of the Western genre. My aim is to show that the film is also transgressive in its very construction. Its mise-en-scene – in which sexual roles are discussed – metaphorizes the repressive forces at work at the time of its production.
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