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SUMMARY:Two Unforgivens: A Transpacific Story of Traveling Westerns
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 Part of the Asian Studies Center Colloquium on 
 Transnational East Asia\n
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 In this presentation 
 Professor Fujitani reads Clint Eastwood's 
 critically acclaimed Unforgiven (1992) against 
 Lee Sang-il's remake Yurusarezaru mono (2013). 
 Fujitani argues that Lee's film, set in 
 Hokkaido, is in many ways a radical and challenging 
 exploration of key themes taken up by 
 Eastwood. These include violence, law, the outlaw, 
 sovereign power, the right to kill and 
 historical accountability. At the same time, 
 Lee takes up several issues that Eastwood simply 
 leaves as background to his story in particular 
 race, indigeneity and settler colonialism.\n
  
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 Takashi Fujitani is professor of history 
 at the University of Toronto where he is 
 also the Dr. David Chu Professor in Asia-Pacific 
 Studies. \n
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 Sponsored by: Asian Studies 
 Center\n
 Co-sponsors: Asian Pacific American 
 Studies Program, Department of History, Department 
 of Religious Studies, Global Studies in 
 the Arts and Humanities, Japan Council\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Asian Studies Center\n
 Contact phone: 517-353-1680\n
 Contact email: asiansc@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:303 International Center
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