
The University of New Mexico
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920; cgonzal@unm.edu
Oct. 24, 2006
The University of New Mexico 's Center for the Southwest presents “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” in its Southwestern Film Series on Monday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Building theatre. The film is free and open to the public.
Throughout the fall and spring of 2006-07 the Center for the Southwest in the Department of History will showcase films produced in the United States Southwest. The movies provide both public and university audiences with a greater awareness of the historical, cross-cultural and social values found within the region's rich film production and dynamic past.
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” directed by Sergio Leone, 1966, is a sprawling Western epic that follows the adventures of three gunfighters looking for hidden treasure and wealth in the 1860s New Mexico Territory. Against the backdrop of the Civil War, they search for a fortune in buried gold. Not knowing the location, each gunman knows only a portion of the gold's whereabouts, so for a moment, they are dependent on each other. Known as a “masterpiece” in Western film genre, it plays upon questions of morality, weighing the consequences of good and evil. It stars Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef.
The film will begin with a short introduction by Samuel Truett, associate professor of history at UNM. Truett explores the history of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, environmental history, New Mexico history and transnational history. One of his essays was recently awarded the “Bolton-Kinnaird Award” for the best essay published on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands region, awarded in 2006 by the Western History Association. This award followed the recent publication of Truett's book Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands (Yale U. Press).
For more information, contact Please call Elaine Nelson at 277-7688 or e-mail the Center for the Southwest at cntrsw@unm.edu .
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