Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-x

Dedication

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part 1 - The Non-Westerns

pp 11-12

Part 1 - Introduction

pp 13-14

1 - “I never did think he was crazy”: Mystery and Criminality in Boetticher's Psychological Noirs

pp 15-27

2 - On Ethics and Style in Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)

pp 28-39

3 - Domestic Tension and Male Hysteria: The Killer is Loose (1956)

pp 40-54

4 - The Killer is Loose (1956) and the Televisual Dissolution of Film Noir

pp 55-74

5 - Adventures on the Small Screen: Boetticher, Warner Bros., and Maverick

pp 75-101

6 - The Signifying Heel: Boetticher's The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

pp 102-116

Part 2 - The Westerns

pp 117-118

Part 2 - Introduction

pp 119-120

7 - The Ranown Cycle: Budd Boetticher's “New Look” Western Programmers in 1950s Hollywood

pp 121-134

8 - Framings, Motifs, and Floating Poker Games in Seven Men from Now (1956)

pp 135-148

9 - The Ranown Style: Mapping Textual Echoes

pp 149-165

10 - You Were Married, But You Never Had a Wife: The Use of Space in the Westerns of Budd Boetticher

pp 166-187

11 - Ideology and Boetticher's Westerns from the Late 1950s

pp 188-205

12 - Outlaws Without a Cause: Generational Conflict in Budd Boetticher's Ranown Cycle

pp 206-227

13 - The Box in the Desert: Budd Boetticher, Breaking Bad, and the Twenty-first-century Western

pp 228-240

Index

pp 241-246