The Post-2000 Film Western

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “Is There Actually Any Jiménez?”: Believing as Seeing in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Chapter 3 “You Must Pay for Everything in This World One Way or Another”: The Economics of Justice in True Grit

Chapter 4 A Spaghetti Southern: Landscapes of Fear in Django Unchained

Chapter 5 Who Was That Masked Man? Conception and Reception in The Lone Ranger

Chapter 6 “Crossing the Beast”: American Identity and Frontier Mythology in Sin Nombre

Chapter 7 Wild West in the Mild West: Reading the Canadian Anti-Western through The Englishman’s Boy

Chapter 8 “Australia. What Fresh Hell Is This?”: Conceptualizing the Australian Western in The Proposition

Chapter 9 Staging the “Wild Wild East”: Decoding the Western in East Asian Films

Chapter 10 Decolonizing the Western: A Revisionist Analysis of Avatar with a Twist

Chapter 11 The Post-Apocalyptic Western as a Bookish Genre: The Book of Eli’s Vision of an Archival Future

Chapter 12 The War on Terror and Intersecting Film Genres in Jonah Hex

Chapter 13 Avant-Garde and Experimental Westerns: The Frontier at the Limits of the Moving Image

Chapter 14 “The Faces May Change, the Names, but They’re There, Now and Fifty Years from Now”: The Myth of the Cavalry in Post-9/11 US Armed Forces Recruitment Commercials