Westerns: Films through History

The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier.Westernsis the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre. InWesterns, leading scholars unpack the ways in which the form has embellished, mythologized, and erased past events. Contributors explore the mythic "Wild West" envisioned by "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the revisionist aims of recent westerns likePosse, Lone Star,andDead Man, and how the genre addresses key issues of biography, authenticity, race, and representation. Included is an introduction by Janet Walker.

Janet Walker is Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

acknowledgments

vii

introduction: westerns through history

1

(26)

janet walker

part one. historical metafiction: the 1990s western

generic subversion as counterhistory: mario van peebles's posse

27

(20)

alexandra keller

a tale N/nobody can tell: the return of a repressed western history in jim jarmusch's dead man

47

(24)

melinda szaloky

the burden of history and john sayles's lone star

71

(18)

tomas f. sandoval, jr.

part two. historiophoty: buffalo bill, the indians, and the western biopic

cowboy wonderland, history and myth: ``it ain't all that different than real life''

89

(20)

william g. simon

louise spence

life-like, vivid, and thrilling pictures: buffalo bill's wild west and early cinema

109

(22)

joy s. kasson

buffalo bill (himself): history and memory in the western biopic

131

(20)

corey k. creekmur

part three. film history: widening horizons

how the west was sung

151

(21)

kathryn kalinak

drums along the l.a. river: scoring the indian

172

(25)

claudia gorbman

beyond the western frontier: reappropriations of the ``good badman'' in france, the french colonies, and contemporary algeria

197

(22)

peter j. bloom

part four. history through narrative

captive images in the traumatic western: the searchers, pursued, once upon a time in the west, and lone star

219

(34)

janet walker

contributors

253

(2)

index

255

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Westerns: Films through History

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