Violence and open spaces
the subversion of boundaries and the transformation of the Western genre

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- CHRISTA BUSCHENDORF, STEFANIE MUELLER, KATJA SARKOWSKY: Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre -- BRIGITTE GEORGI-FINDLAY: Open Spaces, Towns, and Middle Grounds: Symbolic Maps in the Western -- WIBKE SCHNIEDERMANN: "South is not 'down' any more than North is 'up'": Jumping Scales in ‚True Grit' -- JAN D. KUCHARZEWSKI: "Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction": Chaotic Cartographies and Eroding Boundaries in Ethan and Joel Coen's No Country for ‚Old Men' -- MARTIN HOLTZ: The Western in Times of War: ‚Open Range' and ‚Seraphim Falls' as Post-9/11 Films -- MIRIAM STRUBE: Blacks Go West: The Rise of the African American Cowboy -- LAURA BIEGER: Cowboys in Candyland: Quentin Tarantino's ‚Django Unchained' and the Southern Frontier -- IRIS-AYA LAEMMERHIRT: "Kill white people and get paid for it? What's not to like?": Violence and Space in Quentin Tarantino's ‚Django Unchained' -- STEFANIE MUELLER: National and Economic Incorporation in HBO's ‚Deadwood' -- JULIA LEYDA: ‚Breaking Bad': A Recessionary Western -- Backcover