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标题：Robin Wood Signs and Motifs
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作者：Robin Wood
期刊名称：Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism
电子版ISSN：2047-1661
出版年度：2011
期号：2
出版社：University of Warwick
摘要：It is possible to regard the western as a continuously shifting and developing ideogram of the American national psyche. A western is never theautonomous workof a single gifted individual (though the director may be – and usually is – the prime determinant of its particular quality). Its nature is determined by an intricate complex of crosscurrents, social and political as well as aesthetic, the more potent for being assimilated part-consciously. Rooted in American history and American myth, the western can also be a remarkably suggestive sociopolitical barometer of its contemporary climate. The Italian western has in recent years contributed its own complicating factors, and High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood's second film as director, has been seen primarily (and understandably) in terms of his obvious debt to Sergio Leone (of the 'Dollars' movies). Yet, for all the Leone influ-ence (chiefly in the emphasis on brutality, ritual and gro-tesquerie), High Plains Drifteris very much an American movie