Reading Deadwood

A Western to Swear By

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Paperback | 26 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Apart from its brilliance as television, it's amazing what "Deadwood" gets away with. This acclaimed series from HBO, which premiered in 2004, is set in the teeming outlaw camp of 'Deadwood'. It has been described by "Variety" as 'a vulgar, gritty, at times downright nasty take on the Old West brimming with all the dark genius that series creator and sceenwriter extraordinaire David Milch has at his fingertips'. All this and more. The international cast of authoritative contributors assess "Deadwood's" many facets: its profane language, its characters, from Al Swearengen (who lives up to his name) and Calamity Jane, to B.B. Farnham and Mr. Wu, its place in the western genre, "Deadwood" and serial fiction, prostitution, the making of American civil society, "Deadwood's" Chinese, the opening credits, Reverend Smith and much more. Episode and character guides complete the book - the "Deadwood" companion for fans and students to swear by.

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Introduction : Deadwood, David Milch, and television creativity	p. 1
Al Swearengen, philosopher king	p. 11
You motherfucker : Al Swearengen's Oedipal dilemma	p. 23
Six shooters and the fourth estate : A. W. Merrick and Deadwood's information society	p. 33
Why Wild Bill Hickok had to die	p. 43
Myth maketh the woman : Calamity Jane, frontier mythology and creating American (media) historical imaginings	p. 59
Whores, ladies, and Calamity Jane : gender roles and the women of HBO's Deadwood	p. 79
"The horse doesn't get a credit" : the foregrounding of generic syntax in Deadwood's opening credits	p. 93
Robert Penn Warren, David Milch, and the literary contexts of Deadwood	p. 101
Old, new, borrowed, blue : Deadwood and serial fiction	p. 115
"Laws and every other damn thing" : authority, bad faith, and the unlikely success of Deadwood	p. 133
Pimp and whore : the necessity of perverse domestication in the development of the West	p. 145
Divining the "celestials" : the Chinese subculture of Deadwood	p. 157
"What's afflictin' you?" : corporeality, body crises and the body politic in Deadwood	p. 171
Deadwood Dick : the Western (phallus) reinvented	p. 185
Deadwood episode guide	p. 201
A Deadwood encyclopedia	p. 203
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