Neil Campbell is professor of American studies and senior research fellow at the University of Derby, England. He is the author of The Rhizomatic West: Representing the West in the Global, Media Age (Nebraska, 2008) and the editor of, most recently, Photocinema: The Creative Edges of Photography and Film.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Big Hats, Horses, and Dust: The Visible and Invisible West
1. Dead Westerns: The Posthumous and the Post-Western
2. Mourning in America: The Lusty Men (1952) and Bad Day at Black Rock
(1954)
3. "You and Your God's Country": The Misfits (1961)
4. "We Keep Heading West": Dennis Hopper and the Post-Western
5. Exile and Dislocation in the Urban Post-Western: The Exiles (1961) and
Fat City (1972)
6. Post-Western Genealogies: John Sayles's Lone Star (1996) and Silver City
(2004)
7. "Opened from the Inside Out": Wim Wenders's Don't Come Knocking (2005)
8. The Idioms of Living: Donna Deitch and Allison Anders
9. The Schizo-West: Down in the Valley (2005)
10. Spook Country: The Pensive West of No Country for Old Men (2007)
Conclusion: Is There a Politics of the Post-Western?
Notes
Index
