Spectral West - Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film

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.

List of contents

Introduction- The Western as Eco-Gothic; Part One- The Savage West; Chapter 1- The Revenant West: Gothic and Spectral Landscapes; Chapter 2- Ghost Riders in the Lonesome West: The Homely and the Un-Homely; Part Two- To the Boneyard; Chapter 3- Dead Men Walking; Chapter 4- Desolation Road; Part Three- The New Viscera in the 21st Century Western; Chapter 5- Tooth and Claw; Chapter 6- "I Like the Way You Die, Boy."; Bibliography; Index;

About the author

Keith McDonald holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, the University of London, and is an Associate Professor in Film Studies and Media at York St John University. He is the co-author of Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art (2014) and Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film: Transnational Perspectives (2021).

Wayne Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at York St. John University. He received his PhD from Keele University. He is the co-author of Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film: Transnational Perspectives (2021) and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2024).

Product details

• Authors: Wayne Johnson, Johnson Wayne, Keith Mcdonald, Keith Johnson Mcdonald, McDonald Keith
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781839987922
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-792-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Anthem Film and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, Performing arts genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror