- TitleThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Original)
- ArticlesArticles held in BFI Reuben LibraryIn: Adaptation v15 n1 March 2022, pp. 68-83
Revision as nostalgic practice: the imagined adaptation of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs / Wibke Schniedermann
Article - English -
Explores nostalgia, adaptation and revision with reference to Joel and Ethan Coen's 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' (2018), a western 'adapted' from an imagined book of stories. Considers the western genre's relationship with nostalgia and the American national myth, and the way in which the film engages with the genre's ambivalent relationship to the past. Part of the special issue 'Adaptation as revision'.