Reading Westworld

1. Introduction, Alex Goody and Antonia Mackay.- 2. These violent delights: Navigating Westworld as 'quality' television, Kim Wilkins.- 3. 'That which is real is irreplaceable': Lies, Damned Lies, and (Dis)Simulations in Westworld , Will Slocombe.- 4. Factitive Maps: Manipulating Landscapes and Characters in Vast Narratives, Guilia Taurino and Sara Casoli.- 5. Westworld and the Pursuit of Meaningful Play, Andra Ivanescu.- 6. Music as a Source of Narrative Information in HBO's Westworld, Kingsley Marshall.- 7. The Frontier Myth of Memory, Dreams, and Trauma in Westworld, Carol Erwin.- 8. Long Live the New Flesh: Race and the Posthuman in Westworld, Sherryl Vint.- 9. Flies in the Face: Entomology and the Mechanics of Becoming-Living in Westworld , Kristen Tregar.- 10. Westworld 's Archideology and the Impossibility of Freedom, Antonia Mackay.- 11. A Mere Instrument of Production: Representing Domestic Labour in Westworld, Sadek Kessous.- 12. Escaping the Robot's Loop? Power and Purpose, Myth and History in Westworld's Manufactured Frontier, Dustin Abnet.- 13. I-n- I re-member now: A Rastafari Reading of HBO's Westworld, Milt Moise.- 14. The Theme Park of Forking Paths: Text, Intertext and Hypertext in Westworld, Alex Goody.- 15. Yul Brynner's Hat and Time Travel in the Hyperreal, Leander Reeves.- 16. Epilogue, Alex Goody and Antonia Mackay.