The Spectral West

This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.

Acknowledgements  ; Introduction: The Western as Eco-Gothic  ; Part 1: The Savage West  ; 1  The Revenant West: Gothic and Spectral Landscapes; 2  Ghost Riders in the Lonesome West: The Homely and the Un-Homely; Part 2: To the Boneyard  ; 3  Dead Men Walking; 4  Desolation Road; Part 3: The New Viscera in the Twenty-First Century Western  ; 5  Tooth and Claw; 6  'I Like the Way You Die, Boy'; Coda  ; Bibliography  ; Index