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标题：Anthony Mann’s Film Westerns: Mise-en-scène and the Total Image in Bend of the River
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作者：Helen Miller ; Warwick Mules
期刊名称：Transformations
印刷版ISSN：1444-3775
出版年度：2014
期号：24
出版社：Central Queensland University
摘要：The film Westerns of Anthony Mann are now acknowledged as a turning point in the development of the Hollywood Western genre. [1] Unlike the Westerns of directors such as Ford and Hawks where the hero moves through a world opening into unlimited horizons, Mann’s Westerns present a world with a “closed, frozen quality” (Kitses 145). The Mannian westerner circles within this closed world, fleeing his past and facing his own mortality. He is “beaten by a struggle against profound forces that operate as a kind of immutable law” (145). In this closed world, the westerner’s struggle is as much a struggle with the “profound forces” of nature as it is with the villains who oppose him