Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : hell hath no fury like a cowboy scorned
  • 1. Warping Warner's wranglers : Maverick's challenge to the studio western
  • 2. Riding the revisionist range : Maverick's challenge to the adult western
  • 3. A dandy in Abilene : Maverick as flâneur, situationist, and beat
  • 4. The "gentle grafter" and geopolitics : Maverick's antiauthoritarian challenge to the ethos of the Cold War
  • Conclusion: "could I be wrong?" Maverick's antiauthoritarian legacy and the fate of resistant TV.