The Post-2000 Film Western: Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity

Notes on Contributors Introduction; Marek Paryz PART I: THE WESTERN 'AT HOME': DIALOGUES WITH THE TRADITION 1. 'Is There Actually Any Jiménez?': Believing as Seeing in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; Lee Clark Mitchell 2. 'You Must Pay for Everything in This World One Way or Another': True Grit and the Economics of Justice; Martin Holtz 3. A Spaghetti Southern: Django Unchained; Rob Kroes 4. Who Was That Masked Man? Conception and Reception in The Lone Ranger; Shelley Armitage PART II: THE WESTERN 'ABROAD': TRANSNATIONAL VARIATIONS 5. 'Crossing the Beast': American Identity and Frontier Mythology in Sin Nombre; Matthew Carter 6. Wild West in the Mild West: Reading the Canadian Anti-Western through The Englishman's Boy; David Stirrup 7. 'Australia. What Fresh Hell Is This?': Conceptualizing the Australian Western in The Proposition; Emma Hamilton 8. Staging the 'Wild Wild East': Decoding the Western in East Asian Films; Vivian P. Y. Lee PART III: THE WESTERN 'OUT THERE': THE ALLURE OF THE FANTASTIC 9. Decolonizing the Western: A Revisionist Analysis of Avatar with a Twist; M. Elise Marubbio 10. The Post-Apocalyptic Western as a Bookish Genre: The Book of Eli's Vision of an Archival Future; Andrew S. Gross 11. The War on Terror and Intersecting Film Genres in Jonah Hex; Marek Paryz PART IV: THE WESTERN 'ELSEWHERE': CLASSIC INSPIRATIONS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 12. Avant-Garde and Experimental Westerns: The Frontier at the Limits of the Moving Image; Alexandra Keller 13. 'The Faces May Change, the Names, but They're There, Now and Fifty Years from Now': Conflations of Cold War Westerns in the Post-9/11 USAF Recruitment Commercials; Józef Jaskulski Index