The rhetoric of gender role reversal – strong female characters in the American revisionist western
This article investigates gender role reversal in the feminist revisionist Western film by exploring the notion of reversal (peripeteia). First, it demonstrates features of classical Western on the example of John Ford’s "The Searchers" (1956). It establishes genre’s reliance on gendered b...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric Society
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Res Rhetorica |
| Online Access: | http://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/172 |