Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Rethinking the American frontier--Frederick Jackson Turner, Neurasthenia, and the Contemporary Western - Sue Matheson 1. "Free to be not important:" Variety and Versatility in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) - Stella Hockenhull PART ONE RE-CONSTITUTED--CONTEMPORARY COWBOYS 2. "I've Grown Old:" Star Embodiment and Aging Masculinity in the Westerns of Kevin Costner and Jeff Bridges - Gaylyn Studlar 3. Jesse James: Melancholy Aesthetics at the End of Cowboy Politics - Christopher Minz 4. "Next one's comin' faster:" The Vigilante Lawman in FX's Justified (FX, 2010-15) - Brian Brems 5. "I aim to show that he's a man like any other:" Demythologizing Frontier Masculinity in The Proposition (2005) - Christopher J. Olson 6. Lords of the Plains: The Conemporary Western and Discourse in Hell or High Water (2016) - Kelly MacPhail 7.
Baking Soda Buddies: Frontier Friendship/Capitalist Critique in Kelly Reichardt's First Cow - Sue Matheson PART TWO RE-FASHIONED--21ST-CENTURY FRONTIERSWOMEN 8. Deviations from type: the female gaze in a Frontier setting in Ron Howard's The Missing (2003) - Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris 9. Sexual Terrorism, Gender, and Race in The Keeping Room (2014): Revisioning the Revenge Western Fran Pheasant-Kelly 10. Subverting Classic Western Codes and Women's Empowerment in Meek's Cutoff (2010) - Gilles Menegaldo 11. Doing What Westerns Do: Nia DaCosta's Little Woods (2018) and the Representation of the "New West" - Erin Lee Mock 12. Screening Femininities in Deadwood (HBO, 2004-6) - Claire Dutriaux PART III. RE-FORMED-- THE 21ST-CENTURY FRONTIER 13. The (Un)Making of Civilization in the post-2000 Western - Martin Holtz 14.
The Land and its Relationship to Justice in Longmire (A&E, 2012-14; Netflix, 2015 - 17) - Andrew Howe 15. A "Safe Place": The Western "Home" and its Mutation in Logan (2017) - J. Paul Johnson 16. "We have always been posthuman:" Towards Post-Anthropocentric Perspectives in Westworld (HBO, 2016-22) - Katarzyna Nowak-McNiece 17. Revelations in the Old West - Cynthia J. Miller 18. Postcolonial Discourses of "Hobbyism," Cultural Appropriation, and Historical Memory in Global Transnational Westerns - Khani Begum 19. Westerns in Turkey and the Contemporary Turco-Western: Genre, Gender, and Transnationality in Yahsi Bati (2010) - ilyas Deniz Çinar 20.
The Western Rides into the Twenty-First Century: A Bibliography - Camille McCutcheon Index.