Twenty-First-Century Western -

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Résumé :
Introduction: The 21st Century Western: To Begin at the Beginning . . . Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode Chapter 1: An American Genre in Transition: Dead Man (1995) as Predecessor to the 21st Century Western Ann Hetzel Gunkel Chapter 2: Pardon Me, but Your 'i/Indian' Is Showing!: Native American Images in 21st Century Westerns Alan Lechusza Aquallo with Douglas Brode Chapter 3: Missing in the Mountains: The 'Hivernant' as 21st Century Frontier Hero Nicholas Blower Chapter 4: Evolution of a Postmodern Genre: The Western Films of Joel and Ethan Coen Lynnea Chapman King Chapter 5: Rooster Cogburn Revisited: Triangulating True Grit Walter Metz Chapter 6: Westward Ho! The Women!: Frontier Females in Post-Feminist Films Rosanne Welch with Douglas Brode Chapter 7: An American Propensity: The Continuum of Violence in Western Films Nathan Wuertenberg Chapter 8: Once Upon a Time in Tarantino's West: The Persistence of Westerns as the American Fairy Tale Beth Jane Toren with Douglas Brode Chapter 9: Illusions of Individuality: Old Frontiers and New Forms in Meek's Cutoff (2010) and Certain Women (2016) John Bruni Chapter 10: Sheriff, You Forgot Your Pants!: Brokeback Mountain and the Genre's Open Secret Jim Daems Chapter 11: The Bush Westerns: Real Cowboy Movies for a Faux Cowboy Presidency Mark Brenden Chapter 12: Morality, Wounding, and Redemptive Violence: Literary and Cinematic Versions of 3:10 to Yuma Fran Pheasant-Kelly Chapter 13: Of Partners and Posses: Masculine Camaraderie in Modern Western/Action Films Jason McEntree and Sharon Smith Chapter 14: The Present in the Past: New Western History and 21st Century Cowboy Films John Hadjuk and Natalie Rosiek Chapter 15: The Mercy Seat as Inescapable Heat: Ideas of Justice in the Australian Outback in The Proposition Henrik B?dker Chapter 16: A Postmodern Take on the Classical Journey: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Andrew Howe Chapter 17: Having a Home, Come Hell Or High Water!: The Significance of Space and Place in the Neo-Western Sue Matheson Chapter 18: Music as Meaning: 20th Century Western Movie Music in 21st Century Fantastical Films Erik Heine Chapter 19: Return of the TV Western: An Introduction and Overview Garret Castleberry with Douglas Brode Chapter 20: The Western Didn't Die, It Just Went Off-World: Guardians of the Galaxy and the Final-Final Frontier David S. Silverman with Douglas Brode...

Biographie:

Douglas Brode is a retired instructor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications.



Shea T. Brode is an independent scholar who has collaborated with his father as editor on several previous collections.