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Chapter 11 deals with “Noodle Western.” Pivotal in fashioning the U.S. national identity, classic Westerns, circa 1950s, evolved into Spaghetti Western a decade or so later. At the turn of this century, global cinema witnesses a remarkable hybridizing and genre-bending across the Pacific, Italian Spaghetti now remade into Asian-style Noodle Western. All across East Asia, cowboys, frequently in contestation with swordplayers, populate action comedies. This analysis proceeds in three parts on Asian Gunslingers, Swordplayers, and Filmmakers gone west.
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Ma, Sm. (2017). Noodle Western: Asian Gunslingers, Swordplayers, Filmmakers Gone West. In: Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58033-3_11
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