Current Issue
Volume 48, No. 1 Winter 2008
"Modern Film on the American West"
Editor: Ron Briley
ARTICLES
James T. Bratcher
THE WESTERN FORUM: "Up to the Green River!": The Irish Origin of the Mountain Man's Saying. Page 3.
Ron Briley
Introduction: Modern Film on the American West. Page 6.
Neil Campbell
Post-Western Cinema: David Jacobson's Down in the Valley (2005). Page 8.
Michael Faucette
"Sometimes a Man has to be Big Enough to See How Small He Is": Re-Thinking American Manhood in the Pre 9/11 and Post 9/11 Versions of 3:10 to Yuma. Page 15.
Iris Smith Fischer
The Heroes of Shattered History: Poweer and Law in the Films of Kevin Costner. Page 24.
Kimberly Sultze
'La Frontera' on Film: The New Western History in Lone Star (1996). Page 32.
Roger Blomquist
Give or Take a Lie of Two: Historical Accuracy and Film Depictions of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Page 42.
Ron Briley
Mommas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys: Heartbreak and Promise on Brokeback Mountain. Page 50.
Lamont, Deane Anderson
ABOUT THE WEST: Oakland: The Bay Area's Playing Field' auth='Deane Anderson Lamont. Page 58.
Laura Jane Gifford
REVIEW ESSAY: Ethnic History as Western History: Chinese American in the 20th Century West. Page 73.
BOOKS FOR THE WESTERN LIBRARY. Page 75.
ANNOUNCEMENTS. Page 91.
INDEX. Page 94.
BOOK REVIEWS. Page 97.