The Western film continues to be reexamined by scholars, and this collection offers engaging essays on a variety of films and television shows that represent the genre. Essays in this volume consider star/celebrity studies, the representation of race, overviews of Western subgenres, and international Westerns. In all, this collection provides a diverse selection of chapters that represent current thinking on this enduring genre.

Lee Broughton is a freelance writer, critic, film programmer, and lecturer in film and cultural studies. He is the author of The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film (2016).
In addition to Broughton, the volume's contributors are Jenny Barrett, Pete Falconer, Christopher Frayling, Jesus Angel Gonzalez, Mark Goodall, Timothy Hughes, Thomas Klein, Geoff Mann, Cynthia J. Miller, Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Ivo Ritzer, and John White.