Westerns

Abstract

Introduction: The 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Legacy of Western Scholarship Part I: Silent Westerns Chapter 1. The Earliest Western Films: A Checklist of Pre-1900 Prototype Western Films in the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection Chapter 2. 'The Cross-Heart People': Race and Inheritance in the Silent Westerns Chapter 3. 'Arizona Jim': The Westerns of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Part II: Classic Westerns Chapter 4. Soldiers in Stetsons: B-Westerns Go to War Chapter 5. 'Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead': The Early Disney Westerns Chapter 6. 'Let's Go Home, Debbie': The Matter of Blood Pollution, Combat Culture, and Cold War Hysteria in 'The Searchers' (1956) Part III: Race and Westerns Chapter 7. Playing at Being Indian: Spectatorship and the Early Western Chapter 8. A Fate Worse Than Death: Racism, Transgression, and Westerns Chapter 9. A Politically Correct Ethan Edwards: Clint Eastwood's 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976) Part IV: Gender and Westerns Chapter 10. Howard Hughes and His Western: 'The Maverick and The Outlaw' (1943) Chapter 11. Carrying Concealed Weapons: Gendered Makeover in 'Calamity Jane' (1953) Chapter 12. Redesigning Pocahontas: Disney, the 'White Man's Indian', and the Marketing of Dreams Part V: Revisionist Westerns Chapter 13. 'McCabe and Mrs. Miller' (1971): Robert Altman's Anti-Western Chapter 14. Blending Genres, Bending Time: Steampunk of the Western Frontier Chapter 15. 'Deadwood' (2004-2006), Generic Transformation, and Televisual History Part VI: Westerns in Global Context Chapter 16. Shouldering the Weight of the World: The Sensational and Global Appeal of John Wayne's Body Chapter 17. 'The Man With No Name' (1968): Shane Comes Back in a Korean 'Manchurian Western' Chapter 18. Hollywood Border Cinema: Westerns with a Vengeance Selected Bibliography of Westerns on Film and Television