On Westerns and Settler Migration: A Reading of “Meek’s Cutoff” by Kelly Reichardt
This essay examines Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010) as an example of ‘slow’ and feminist western film. In particular, it shows how, by applying an “austere” aesthetics (Gorfinkel 2015) and by giving prominence to the act of migrating rather than the act of settling, the movie rewrites pioneer...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1011 |