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The Twenty-First-Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic Stage
Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of women in Westerns, etc.), they share an understanding of the twenty-first century Western may be understood as a genre in itself. They argue that the films discussed here reimagine certain aspects of the more conventional Western and often reverse the ideology contained within them while employing certain forms and clichés that have become synonymous internationally with Westerns. The result is a contemporary sensibility that might be referred to as the postmodern Western.
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The Twenty-First-Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic Stage
Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of women in Westerns, etc.), they share an understanding of the twenty-first century Western may be understood as a genre in itself. They argue that the films discussed here reimagine certain aspects of the more conventional Western and often reverse the ideology contained within them while employing certain forms and clichés that have become synonymous internationally with Westerns. The result is a contemporary sensibility that might be referred to as the postmodern Western.
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The Twenty-First-Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic Stage

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Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of women in Westerns, etc.), they share an understanding of the twenty-first century Western may be understood as a genre in itself. They argue that the films discussed here reimagine certain aspects of the more conventional Western and often reverse the ideology contained within them while employing certain forms and clichés that have become synonymous internationally with Westerns. The result is a contemporary sensibility that might be referred to as the postmodern Western.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781793615114
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 12/12/2019
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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 Bødker



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

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