Contemporary westerns : film and television since 1990 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nelson, Andrew Patrick, 1982- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., [2013]
Subjects:	Western films > United States > History and criticism. Western television programs > United States. West (U.S.) > In motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The American western, 1990-2010 / Andrew Patrick Nelson
Pt. 1. Old West, new stories
Dances with wolves: romantic reconstruction, historical reality, or both? / Michael T. Marsden
Revisionism 2.0? Unforgiven and the Hollywood Western in the 1990s / Andrew Patrick Nelson
Tomorrow the green grass: Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / Adrian Danks
"One way or other, there's going to be justice": Rethinking HBO, Deadwood, and the Western, 1984-2010 / Gareth James
Murder ballad: The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford / Stephen Gaunson
The professional Western revived: southern diaspora, frontier heteroglossia, and audience nostalgia in True grit (2010) / Sue Matheson
Pt. 2 New Wests, old stories
No country for old men and There will be blood: classic western values eclipsed by modern capitalism / William C. Siska
Hi-ho, cyborg! savages, cyborgs and gender on the science fiction frontier / Sarah Banschbach
Osama bin Laden ain't here: Justified as a 9/11 Western / Paul Zinder
Pure country - pure Strait, pure myth: the myth of the Texas cowboy / Melynda J. Seaton
"I'm just a cowboy": transnational identities of the border country in The three burials of Melquiades Estrada / Matthew Carter.