The Twenty-First-Century Western
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The Twenty-First-Century Western

New Riders of the Cinematic Stage

  1. 297 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Twenty-First-Century Western

New Riders of the Cinematic Stage

About this book

Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of women in Westerns, etc.), they share an understanding of the twenty-first century Western may be understood as a genre in itself. They argue that the films discussed here reimagine certain aspects of the more conventional Western and often reverse the ideology contained within them while employing certain forms and clichés that have become synonymous internationally with Westerns. The result is a contemporary sensibility that might be referred to as the postmodern Western.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction. The Twenty-First-Century Western: To Begin at the Beginning . . .
  3. Ch01. An American Genre in Transition
  4. Ch02. “Pardon Me, but Your i/Indian Is Showing”
  5. Ch03. Missing in the Mountains
  6. Ch04. Evolution of a Postmodern Genre
  7. Ch05. Rooster Cogburn Revisited
  8. Ch06. Westward Ho! The Women!
  9. Ch07. An American Propensity
  10. Ch08. Once Upon a Time in Tarantino’s West
  11. Ch09. Illusions of Individuality
  12. Ch10. “Sheriff, You Forgot Your Pants!”
  13. Ch11. The Bush Westerns
  14. Ch12. Morality, Wounding, and Redemptive Violence
  15. Ch13. Of Partners and Posses
  16. Ch14. The Present in the Past
  17. Ch15. “The Mercy Seat” as Inescapable Heat
  18. Ch16. A Postmodern Take on the Classical Journey
  19. Ch17. Having a Home, Come Hell or High Water!
  20. Ch18. Music as Meaning
  21. Ch19. Return of the TV Western
  22. Ch20. The Western Didn’t Die, It Just Went Off-World
  23. Title Index
  24. Name Index
  25. About the Contributors