Westerns

Janet Walker is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Couching Resistance: Women, Film andPsychoanalytic Psychiatry and co-editor of Feminism andDocumentary.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Westerns through History: Janet Walker; Part I Historical Metafiction: the 1990s Western; 1. Generic Subversion as Counterhistory: Mario Van Peebles's Posse: Alexandra Keller; 2. A Tale N/nobody Can Tell: the Return of a Repressed Western History in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man: Melinda Szaloky; 3. The Burden of History and John Sayles's Lone Star: Tomas F. Sandoval, Jr.; Part II Historiophoty: Buffalo Bill, the Indians, and the Western Biopic; 4. Cowboy Wonderland, History, and Myth: It ain't all that different than real life: William G. Simon and Louise Spence; 5. Lifelike, Vivid, and Thrilling Pictures: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Early Cinema: Joy S. Kasson; 6. Buffalo Bill (Himself): History and Memory in the Western Biopic: Corey K. Creekmur; Part III Film History: Widening Horizons; 7. How the West Was Sung: Kathryn Kalinak; 8. Drums Along the L.A. River: Scoring the Indian: Claudia Gorbman; 9. Beyond the Western Frontier: Reappropriations of the good badman in France, the French colonies, and contemporary Algeria: Peter J. Bloom; Part IV History through Narrative; 10. Captive Images in the Traumatic Western: The Searchers, Pursued, Once Upon a Time in the West and Lone Star: Janet Walker; Contributors; Index