Introduction: Deadwood and the forms of American empire / Paul Stasi and Jennifer Greiman -- Fabulous retroactivity and invisible agency: democracy, capitalism, and the history of the present. Vile task: founding and democracy in Deadwood's imperial imagination / Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr. -- The Gothic frontier of modernity: the "invisible hand" of state-formation in Deadwood / Julia M. Wright -- "It's all f***ing amalgamation and capital, ain't it?": Deadwood, the Pinkertons, and the closing of the frontier / Jeffrey Scraba and John David Miles -- No law at all in Deadwood: race, violence, and the state in contemporary America. Securing the color: the racial economy of Deadwood / Daniel Worden -- Listening to the thunder: Deadwood and the extraordinary depiction of ordinary violence / Justin A. Joyce -- A terrible beauty: Deadwood, frontier rhetoric, and U.S. hegemony in the post-9/11 era / Erik Altenbernd and Alex Young -- "A sovereign f***ing community": gender, domesticity, and the sexual politics of Deadwood. Messages from invisible sources: surveillance and the public sphere in Deadwood / Mark L. Berrettini -- "The world is less than perfect": nontraditional family structures in Deadwood / Paul Zinder -- The return of the father: Deadwood and the contemporary gender politics of complexity / David Greven.
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