Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear ByDavid Lavery Introduction : Deadwood, David Milch, and television creativity / David Lavery -- Part 1. Characters -- Al Swearengen, philosopher king / Jason Jacobs -- You motherfucker : Al Swearengen's Oedipal dilemma / Kim Akass -- Six shooters and the fourth estate : A.W. Merrick and Deadwood's information society / Shawn McIntosh -- Why Wild Bill Hickok had to die / Douglas L. Howard -- Part 2. The women of Deadwood -- Myth maketh the woman : Calamity Jane, frontier mythology and creating American (media) historical imaginings / Janet McCabe -- Whores, ladies, and Calamity Jane : gender roles and the women of HBO's Deadwood / Kathleen E.R. Smith -- Part 3. Deadwood and genre -- "The horse doesn't get a credit" : the foregrounding of generic syntax in Deadwood's opening credits / Amanda Ann Klein -- Robert Penn Warren, David Milch, and the literary contexts of Deadwood / Joseph Millichap -- Old, new, borrowed, blue : Deadwood and serial fiction / Sean O'Sullivan -- Part 4. The fabric of society in Deadwood -- "Laws and every other damn thing" : authority, bad faith, and the unlikely success of Deadwood / David Drysdale -- Pimp and whore : the necessity of perverse domestication in the development of the West / G. Christopher Williams -- Divining the "celestials" : the Chinese subculture of Deadwood / Paul Wright and Hailin Zhou -- Part 5. The body in Deadwood -- "What's afflictin' you?" : corporeality, body crises and the body politic in Deadwood / Erin Hill -- Deadwood Dick : the western (phallus) reinvented / David Scott Diffrient -- Appendix A. Deadwood episode guide -- Appendix B.A Deadwood encyclopedia. |
