{"product_id":"the-twenty-first-century-western-new-riders-of-the-cinematic-stage-9781793615114","title":"The Twenty-First-Century Western: New Riders of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time there was the classic Western.  Times have changed, but those under the misconception that the Western is dead need look no further than Douglas and Shea Brode's book for evidence to the contrary.  The twenty original essays in this volume speak to the genre's durability and adaptability in the twenty-first century, demonstrating ways in which the Western has been reinvented and reflecting contemporary sensibilities and contradictions regarding gender, race, sexual orientation, violence, and the environment.  Postmodern Westerns build upon traditional myths of the past while presenting new heroes, landscapes, and issues, and the diverse authors represented in this book capture the essence of the stories they tell and audiences they address. -- Kathy Merlock Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan University, president of the Popular Culture Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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. 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