The Expression of the North/South Conflict in Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur, 1956): Western Conventions and Southern Motifs, Subversion and Satire

Great Day in the Morning is among the few Westerns to deal with the Civil War as it was actually taking place. Tourneur’s film offers an example of generic hybridity, associating the codes of the Western and numerous references to Southern culture. The French-born director subverts a number of conve...

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Main Author: Gilles Menegaldo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2018-07-01
Series:Revue LISA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/9381
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