Contemporary westerns : film and television since 1990 / edited by Andrew Patrick Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Western films--United States--History and criticism.

Western films.

Western television programs.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Scarecrow Press, 2013.

Summary:

This collection of original essays investigates film and television westerns of the last 25 years. It offers the first substantial account of the trends and transformations in this under-explored period, arguing for the continued relevance and vibrancy of the western as a narrative form.

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? 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: classical 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: Justifiedáas a 9/11 Western / Paul Zinder

Pure country pure strait: the myth of the Texas cowboy / Melynda Seaton

"I'm just a cowboy": transnational identities of the Border Country in The three burials of Melquiades Estrada / Matthew Carter.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

979-88-8181-887-6

0-8108-9257-X

OCLC:

938025608