The Post-2000 Film Western

John R. Leo, University of Rhode Island, USA Marek Paryz, University of Warsaw, Poland Shelley Armitage, University of Texas at El Paso, USA Matthew Carter, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Andrew S. Gross, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Emma Hamilton, University of Newcastle, Australia Martin Holtz, Greifswald University Józef Jaskulski, , University of Warsaw, Poland Alexandra Keller, Smith College Rob Kroes, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Vivian P. Y. Lee, City University of Hong Kong M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College, USA Lee Clark Mitchell, Princeton University, USA David Stirrup, University of Kent, UK

Notes on Contributors Introduction; Marek Paryz PART I: THE WESTERN 'AT HOME': DIALOGUES WITH THE TRADITION 1. 'Is There Actually Any Jiménez?': Believing as Seeing in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; Lee Clark Mitchell 2. 'You Must Pay for Everything in This World One Way or Another': True Grit and the Economics of Justice; Martin Holtz 3. A Spaghetti Southern: Django Unchained; Rob Kroes 4. Who Was That Masked Man? Conception and Reception in The Lone Ranger; Shelley Armitage PART II: THE WESTERN 'ABROAD': TRANSNATIONAL VARIATIONS 5. 'Crossing the Beast': American Identity and Frontier Mythology in Sin Nombre; Matthew Carter 6. Wild West in the Mild West: Reading the Canadian Anti-Western through The Englishman's Boy; David Stirrup 7. 'Australia. What Fresh Hell Is This?': Conceptualizing the Australian Western in The Proposition; Emma Hamilton 8. Staging the 'Wild Wild East': Decoding the Western in East Asian Films; Vivian P. Y. Lee PART III: THE WESTERN 'OUT THERE': THE ALLURE OF THE FANTASTIC 9. Decolonizing the Western: A Revisionist Analysis of Avatar with a Twist; M. Elise Marubbio 10. The Post-Apocalyptic Western as a Bookish Genre: The Book of Eli's Vision of an Archival Future; Andrew S. Gross 11. The War on Terror and Intersecting Film Genres in Jonah Hex; Marek Paryz PART IV: THE WESTERN 'ELSEWHERE': CLASSIC INSPIRATIONS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 12. Avant-Garde and Experimental Westerns: The Frontier at the Limits of the Moving Image; Alexandra Keller 13. 'The Faces May Change, the Names, but They're There, Now and Fifty Years from Now': Conflations of Cold War Westerns in the Post-9/11 USAF Recruitment Commercials; Józef Jaskulski Index