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Book SynopsisBrings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood's representation of the frontier West
Trade Review"Melody Graulich and Nicholas S. Witschi offer a smart collection of 11 essays that deconstruct
Deadwood."
—True West"
Dirty Words in Deadwood will be welcomed by
Deadwood scholars and casual readers looking for fresh insights into Milch's iconoclastic series."
—Brad Benz,
Great Plains Quarterly“Solidly researched and persuasively argued. . . .
Dirty Words in “Deadwood” expands upon its multiple meanings from a broad scope of perspectives that situate the series in a startlingly contemporary world.”—Kirsten Møllegaard,
Journal of American Culture Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Deadwood's Barbaric Yawp: Sharing a Literary HeritageMelody GraulichDeadwood EpisodesDeadwood Cast1. David Milch at Yale: An InterviewNathaniel Lewis2. Last Words in DeadwoodBrian McCuskey3. The Thinking of Al Swearengen's Body: Kidney Stones, Pigpens, and Burkean Catharsis in DeadwoodTim Steckline4. "Land of Oblivion": Abjection, Broken Bodies, and the Western Narrative in DeadwoodJohn Dudley5. The Final Stamp: Deadwood and the Gothic American FrontierWendy Witherspoon6. "Down These Mean Streets": Film Noir, Deadwood, Cinematic Space, and the Irruption of Genre CodesNicolas S. Witschi7. "Right or Wrong, You Side with Your Feelings"Jennilyn Merten8. "A Brooding and Dangerous Soul": Deadwood's Imperfect MusicDavid Fenimore9. Calamity Jane and Female Masculinity in DeadwoodLinda Mizejewski10. Queer Spaces and Emotional Couplings in DeadwoodMichael K. Johnson11. Who Put the Gun into the Whore's Hand? Disability in DeadwoodNicole TonkovichBibliographyContributorsIndex
