The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire. Stasi, Grei PB<|

The Last WesternDeadwood and the End of American Empire\nAuthor(s): Paul Stasi, Jennifer Greiman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781441126306, 978-1441126306\nSynopsis\nPerhaps the most sophisticated and complex of shows in HBO's recent history, Deadwood has surprisingly little coverage in our current scholarship. Grounding contemporary anxieties about race and class, domesticity and American exceptionalism in its nineteenth-century setting, Deadwood revises our understanding of a formative period for the American nation through a re-examination of one of the main genres through which this national story has been transmitted: the Western. With contributions from scholars in American studies, literature, and film and television studies, The Last Western situates Deadwood in the context of both its nineteenth-century setting and its twenty-first-century audience. Together, these essays argue for the series.