Araştırma Makalesi

A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Cilt: 9 Sayı: 4 16 Temmuz 2026
PDF İndir
TR EN

A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Öz

This article interrogates Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) within the conceptual horizon of postwestern cinema, theorizing the structural exhaustion and irreducible non-closure of modern heroic mythology in contemporary visual culture. Moving beyond historical, biographical, or psychological paradigms, the study reconceptualizes Jesse James as a fatigued mythic formation operating across interlocking regimes of visual representation, narrative organization, temporal experience, and political regulation. Within the film, heroism relinquishes its capacity to organize moral exemplarity or teleological progression and disarticulates itself through an aesthetic regime of silence, stillness, and withdrawal. The analysis unfolds along four analytically distinct yet structurally interdependent axes. First, the iconographic regime articulated around face, body, and gaze destabilizes the representational coherence historically sustaining heroic visibility. Second, the narrative configuration centered on Robert Ford reconfigures betrayal as a structural consequence of mythic unsustainability, thereby displacing individualized ethical explanation. Third, the film’s temporal regime suspends logics of progression and closure and institutes a melancholic temporality configured through duration, delay, and repetition. Fourth, Jesse James’s death functions as a necropolitical threshold that formalizes the administration, authorization, and symbolic regulation of death. The article advances the claim that the film rearticulates heroic form as an exhausted yet unresolved cultural residue, with efficacy persisting within the domain of cultural memory. Postwestern cinema assumes the status of an aesthetic field oriented toward the critical exposition of heroism’s historical, ethical, and representational limits, rendering exhaustion and non-closure operative as constitutive conditions of contemporary mythic persistence.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Destekleyen Kurum

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Etik Beyan

It is declared that scientific and ethical principles have been followed while carrying out and writing this study and that all the sources used have been properly cited.

Kaynakça

  1. Barthes, R. (1981). Camera lucida: Reflections on photography. Hill and Wang.
  2. Benjamin, W. (1968). Illuminations (H. Arendt, Ed.; H. Zohn, Trans.). Schocken Books.
  3. Benjamin, W. (2008). The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility and other writings on media (M. W. Jennings, B. Doherty, & T. Y. Levin, Eds.; E. Jephcott et al., Trans.). Harvard University Press.
  4. Blanchot, M. (1995). The writing of the disaster (A. Smock, Trans.). University of Nebraska Press.
  5. Deleuze, G. (1986). Cinema 1: The movement-image (H. Tomlinson & B. Habberjam, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press.
  6. Deleuze, G. (1989). Cinema 2: The time-image (H. Tomlinson & R. Galeta, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press.
  7. Derrida, J. (1994). Specters of Marx: The state of the debt, the work of mourning and the new international (P. Kamuf, Trans.). Routledge.
  8. Dominik, A. (Director). (2007). The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford [Film]. Warner Bros.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Latin Amerika Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Kültürleri

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

16 Temmuz 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

14 Ocak 2026

Kabul Tarihi

8 Temmuz 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 4

Kaynak Göster

APA
Sarıbaş, S. (2026). A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Uluslararası Ekonomi Siyaset İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi, 9(4), 265-279. https://doi.org/10.59445/ijephss.1863732
AMA
1.Sarıbaş S. A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. IJEPHSS. 2026;9(4):265-279. doi:10.59445/ijephss.1863732
Chicago
Sarıbaş, Serap. 2026. “A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”. Uluslararası Ekonomi Siyaset İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi 9 (4): 265-79. https://doi.org/10.59445/ijephss.1863732.
EndNote
Sarıbaş S (01 Temmuz 2026) A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Uluslararası Ekonomi Siyaset İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi 9 4 265–279.
IEEE
[1]S. Sarıbaş, “A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”, IJEPHSS, c. 9, sy 4, ss. 265–279, Tem. 2026, doi: 10.59445/ijephss.1863732.
ISNAD
Sarıbaş, Serap. “A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”. Uluslararası Ekonomi Siyaset İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi 9/4 (01 Temmuz 2026): 265-279. https://doi.org/10.59445/ijephss.1863732.
JAMA
1.Sarıbaş S. A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. IJEPHSS. 2026;9:265–279.
MLA
Sarıbaş, Serap. “A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”. Uluslararası Ekonomi Siyaset İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi, c. 9, sy 4, Temmuz 2026, ss. 265-79, doi:10.59445/ijephss.1863732.
Vancouver
1.Serap Sarıbaş. A Necropolitical Postwestern Myth: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. IJEPHSS. 01 Temmuz 2026;9(4):265-79. doi:10.59445/ijephss.1863732

International Journal of Economics, Politics, Humanities & Social Sciences – IJEPHSS Creative Commons Atıf-GayriTicari 4.0 Uluslararası Lisansı (CC BY NC) ile lisanslanmıştır.