No. 19 – The Western (2004)

Edited by Homer B. Petty

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Table of Contents

• Essays
• Enduring Western Imagery in Popular Culture, pp 1-26
  Homer B. Pettey
  
• Myths and Fantasies of the West, pp 27-40
  John Cawelti
  
• “A Scorned Outcast Thing”: Mixed-Blood Outlaws in the Dime Novel, pp 41-56
  Harry Brown
  
• The Cowboy’s Twisted Trail from Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee to Playboy Magazine, pp 57-78
  Paul Reddin
  
• Buster Keaton’s Cervantic Westerns: Subversion of the Six-Gun Mystique, pp 79-93
  Eric L. Reinholtz
  
• The Mexican Revolution as Western Vengeance Quest: Azuela’s Los de Abajo, pp 94-115
  Jennifer Lei Jenkins
  
• Why Monument Valley? (And Why Again and Again?): John Ford’s Stagecoach and the Landscape of Time, pp 116-146
  Lee Clark Mitchell
  
• The Searchers: Now and Then, pp 147-160
  John Lenihan
  
• Done in by Demographics: Why the Western Rode into the Sunset, pp 161-174
  Corless Smith
  
• Sacred Sites of Violence in the Western: Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, pp 175-200
  Homer B. Pettey
  
• “The Theater of His Life”: Wild Bill Hickock’s Amor Fati, pp 201-210
  Charles Sherry
  
• Larceny, Swindle, Drought, Fire, Earthquake, Plague, Riot, Murder, Rape, Incest: Los Angeles as our Western Frontier, pp 211-239
  Fred See
  
• Interviews
• Paradoxa Interview with Walon Green, by Homer Pettey, pp 240-258
  
• Paradoxa Interview with Max Evans,  by Homer Pettey, pp 259-284
• Reviews
• Return of the Vanishing Native American, pp 285-289
  Jennifer Lei Jenkins reviews Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western. Armando José Prats. Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8014-3961-2 cloth. 317 pp., illustrations, notes, index, bibliography. $21.95
• Legends of the Hollywood West, pp 290-302
  Gretchen Ronnow reviews The Hollywood West: Lives of Film Legends Who Shaped It. Edited by Richard W. Etulain and Glenda Riley. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum, 2001. ISBN: 1555914349. 256 pgs. $17.95
• The Enigmatic John Ford, Western Director, pp 295-302
  Carmen Ortiz Henley reviews John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era. Gaylyn Studlar and Matthew Bernstein, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001, 312 pp., 62 illus. $39.95
  and Searching for John Ford: A Life. Joseph McBride. New York: St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2001, 838 pp., 32 ills. $40.00.
• What Lies Beneath, pp 303-306
  Jennifer Lei Jenkins reviews Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West. Mary Lawlor. Rutgers University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8135-2830-5. 224 pp., illustrations, notes, index. $22.00
• Singing Cowboys, Minstrel Songs: A Review of Peter Stanfield’s Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail 307
  Gretchen Ronnow Positing Western History, pp 312-316
  Joanna Hearne reviews Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail. Peter Stanfield. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. ISBN: 085989 694 3 (paperback). 258 pgs. $29.95
• Bibliography
• Selected Bibliography on the Western and the West, and Selected Filmography on the Western Film and Television Series, pp 317-355
  Homer B. Pettey