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- Title
Genre, Translation, and Transnational Cinema: Kim Jee-woon's The Good, the Bad, the Weird.
- Authors
CHO, MICHELLE
- Abstract
This article examines the operation of genre translation in transnational cinemas through an analysis of Kim Jee-woon's 2008 film The Good, the Bad, the Weird, which triangulates the genre conventions of Hollywood, spaghetti, and Manchurian westerns. I argue that Kim uses the literal and depthless rendering of genre tropes to create a work whose fidelity to its generic predecessors ultimately dismantles their conventional ideologies. The article presents an overview of The Good, the Bad, the Weird's discursive contexts, a theoretical discussion of translation in genre adaptation, and a close reading of the film's key scenes and motifs.
- Subjects
GOOD, the Bad, the Weird, The (Film); KIM, Jee-woon; MOTION pictures &; transnationalism; SPAGHETTI Westerns; KOREAN films; WESTERN films; FILM genres
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2015, Vol 54, Issue 3, p44
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2015.0022