Nathaniel Lewis is a professor of English at Saint Michael’s College. He is the coeditor of True West: Authenticity and the American West (Nebraska, 2004) and the author of Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship(Nebraska, 2003). Stephen Tatum is a professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of In the Remington Moment (Nebraska, 2010) and the coeditor of Reading “The Virginian” in the New West (Nebraska, 2003).

“Bold, dangerous, troubling, speculative, and playful, spinning stories from the vortex provided by the CSI episode outward and back-away from the West . . . and then back to the widening sense of what the ‘postregional’ might mean.”-Neil Campbell, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Derby and author of The Rhizomatic West: Representing the West in the Transnational, Global, Media Age

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Morning in Las Vegas1. The Problem of the Past: The Case of the Stolen Hummer2. The Problem of Space and Place: The Case of the Dead Convention Model3. The Problem of Aesthetics: The Case of the Dead Bodybuilder4. The Problem of the [Uncanny] West: The Case of the Abandoned Dead BoyConclusion: Nighthawks in Las Vegas“Just Another Day in Paradise”: An EnvoiSource AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Nathaniel Lewis is a professor of English at Saint Michael’s College. He is the coeditor of True West: Authenticity and the American West (Nebraska, 2004) and the author of Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship(Nebraska, 2003). Stephen Tatum is a professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of In the Remington Moment (Nebraska, 2010) and the coeditor of Reading “The Virginian” in the New West (Nebraska, 2003).

“Bold, dangerous, troubling, speculative, and playful, spinning stories from the vortex provided by the CSI episode outward and back-away from the West . . . and then back to the widening sense of what the ‘postregional’ might mean.”-Neil Campbell, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Derby and author of The Rhizomatic West: Representing the West in the Transnational, Global, Media Age

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Morning in Las Vegas1. The Problem of the Past: The Case of the Stolen Hummer2. The Problem of Space and Place: The Case of the Dead Convention Model3. The Problem of Aesthetics: The Case of the Dead Bodybuilder4. The Problem of the [Uncanny] West: The Case of the Abandoned Dead BoyConclusion: Nighthawks in Las Vegas“Just Another Day in Paradise”: An EnvoiSource AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex