Reading Deadwood

Reading Deadwood:

A Western to Swear By

Edited by David Lavery

Deadwood on the HBO Website | Deadwood Episode Guide | Deadwood Episodes by Title | Deadwood Episodes by Writer | Deadwood Episodes by Director

Go here to read a PDF version of Paul Wright and Hai Lin Zhou's "Divining the 'Celestials': The Chinese Subculture of HBO’s Deadwood." This is the extended version of an essay which will appear in Reading Deadwood.

Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By, edited by David Lavery, will be published in 2006 by I. B. Tauris in the "Reading Contemporary Television" series edited by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass. The deadline has now passed for submitting proposal. Go here to open and print a PDF version of the CFP. To be placed on an e-mail list for news about the book, send an e-mail to david.lavery@gmail.com. Be sure to put "Deadwood e-mail list" in the subject line.

David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University, USA). Introduction. Deadwood, David Milch, and Television Creativity

Characters

Al Swearengen:

Jason Jacobs (Griffith U, AUS). Al Swearengen, Philosopher King
Kim Akass (U North London, UK). You Motherfucker: Al Swearengen's Oedipal Dilemma

Shawn McIntosh (Rutgers U, USA). Six Shooters and the Fourth Estate: A.W. Merrick and Deadwood's Information Society

Douglas Howard (SUNY Suffolk, USA). Why Wild Bill Hickok Had to Die

The Women of Deadwood

Janet McCabe (Manchester Metropolitan U, UK). Myth Maketh the Woman: Calamity Jane and the Myth of the West

Kathleen E. R. Smith (Northwestern State U of Louisiana, USA). Whores, Ladies, and Calamity Jane: Western Gender Roles and the Women of HBO’s Deadwood

Deadwood and Genre

Amanda Klein (U Pittsburgh, USA). “The Horse Doesn’t Get a Credit”: The Foregrounding of Generic Syntax in Deadwood’s Opening Credits

Joseph Millichap (Western Kentucky U, USA). David Milch, Robert Penn Warren, and the Literary Contexts of Deadwood

Sean O’Sullivan (Clemson U, USA). Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: Deadwood and Serial Fiction

Politics, Language, Race

David Drysdale (U Northern British Columbia, CAN). “Laws and Every other Damn Thing”: Authority, Bad Faith, and the Unlikely Success of Deadwood

Paul Wright & Hai Lin Zhou (Villanova U, USA). Divining the “Celestials”: The Chinese Subculture of Deadwood

G. Christopher Williams (U Wisconsin Stevens Point, USA). Pimp and Whore: The Necessity of Perverse Domestication in the Development of the Western

The Body in Deadwood

Erin Hill (UCLA, USA). "What's Afflictin' You?": Corporeality, Body Crises and the Body Politic in Deadwood

David Scott Diffrient (University of Michigan, USA). Deadwood Dick: The Western (Phallus) Reinvented

Appendix A: Deadwood Episode Guide

Appendix B: Deadwood Cast List

Appendix C: A Deadwood Encyclopedia

Notes

Bibliography

Index

13 | 2001 | 3|6|2005 | A Lie Agreed Upon | David Milch | Ed Bianchi

14 | 2002 | 3|13|2005 | A Lie Agreed Upon (2) | Jody Worth | Ed Bianchi

22 | 2010 | 5|8|2005 | Advances, None Miraculous | Sara Hess | Dan Minahan

21 | 2009 | 5|1|2005 | Amalgamation and Capital | Elizabeth Sarnoff | Ed Bianchi

24 | 2012 | 5|22|2005 | Boy the Earth Talks To | Ted Mann | Ed Bianchi

7 | 1007 | 5|2|2004 | Bullock Returns to the Camp | Jody Worth | Michael Engler

20 | 2008 | 4|24|05 | Childish Things | Regina Corrado | Timothy Van Patten

17 | 2005 | 4|3|2005 | Complications | Victoria Morrow | Gregg Fienberg

1 | 1001 | 3|21|04 | Deadwood | David Milch | Walter Hill

2 | 1002 | 3|28|05 | Deep Water | Malcolm MacRury | Davis Guggenheim

19 | 2007 | 4|17|2005 | E.B. Was Left Out | Jody Worth | Michael Almereyda

4 | 1004 | 4|11|2004 | Here was a Man | Elizabeth Sarnoff | Alan Taylor

11 | 1011 | 6|6|2004 | Jewell's Boot is Made for Walking | Ricky Jay | Steve Shill

10 | 1010 | 5|23|2004 | Mr. Wu | Bryan McDonald | Dan Minahan

15 | 2003 | 3|20|2005 | New Money | Elizabeth Sarnoff | Steve Shill

9 | 1009 | 5|16|2004 | No Other Sons or Daughters | George Putnam | Ed Bianchi

6 | 1006 | 4|25|2004 | Plague | Malcolm MacRury | Davis Guggenheim

3 | 1003 | 4|4|2004 | Reconnoitering the Rim | Jody Worth | Davis Guggenheim

16 | 2004 | 3|27|2005 | Requiem for a Gleet | Ted Mann | Alan Taylor

12 | 1012 | 6|13|2004 | Sold Under Sin | Ted Mann | Davis Guggenheim

18 | 2006 | 4|10|2005 | Something Very Expensive | Steve Shill | Steve Shill

8 | 1008 | 6|9|2004 | Suffer the Little Children | Elizabeth Sarnoff | Dan Minahan

5 | 1005 | 4|18|2004 | The Trial of Jack McCall | John Belluso | Ed Bianchi

23 | 2011 | 5|15|2005 | The Whores Can Come | Bryan McDonald | Gregg Fienberg

Deadwood Writers

# | Season # | Air Date | Title | Director

John Belluso

5 | 1005 | 4|18|2004 | The Trial of Jack McCall | Ed Bianchi

Regina Corrado

20 | 2008 | 4|24|05 | Childish Things | Timothy Van Patten

Sara Hess

22 | 2010 | 5|8|2005 | Advances, None Miraculous | Dan Minahan

Ricky Jay

11 | 1011 | 6|6|2004 | Jewell's Boot is Made for Walking | Steve Shill

Malcolm MacRury

2 | 1002 | 3|28|05 | Deep Water | Davis Guggenheim

6 | 1006 | 4|25|2004 | Plague | Davis Guggenheim

Ted Mann

12 | 1012 | 6|13|2004 | Sold Under Sin | Davis Guggenheim

16 | 2004 | 3|27|2005 | Requiem for a Gleet | Alan Taylor

24 | 2012 | 5|22|2005 | Boy the Earth Talks To | Ed Bianchi

Bryan McDonald

10 | 1010 | 5|23|2004 | Mr. Wu | Dan Minahan

23 | 2011 | 5|15|2005 | The Whores Can Come | Gregg Fienberg

David Milch

1 | 1001 | 3|21|04 | Deadwood

13 | 2001 | 3|6|2005 | A Lie Agreed Upon

Victoria Morrow

17 | 2005 | 4|3|2005 | Complications | Gregg Fienberg

George Putnam

9 | 1009 | 5|16|2004 | No Other Sons or Daughters | Ed Bianchi

Elizabeth Sarnoff

4 | 1004 | 4|11|2004 | Here was a Man | Alan Taylor

8 | 1008 | 6|9|2004 | Suffer the Little Children | Dan Minahan

15 | 2003 | 3|20|2005 | New Money | Steve Shill

21 | 2009 | 5|1|2005 | Amalgamation and C

#	Season #	Air Date	Title	Writer	Director
1	1001	3\|21\|04	Deadwood	David Milch	Walter Hill
2	1002	3\|28\|05	Deep Water	Malcolm MacRury	Davis Guggenheim
3	1003	4\|4\|04	Reconnoitering the Rim	Jody Worth	Davis Guggenheim
4	1004	4\|11\|04	Here was a Man	Elizabeth Sarnoff	Alan Taylor
5	1005	4\|18\|04	The Trial of Jack McCall	John Belluso	Ed Bianchi
6	1006	4\|25\|04	Plague	Malcolm MacRury	Davis Guggenheim
7	1007	5\|2\|04	Bullock Returns to the Camp	Jody Worth	Michael Engler
8	1008	6\|9\|04	Suffer the Little Children	Elizabeth Sarnoff	Dan Minahan
9	1009	5\|16\|04	No Other Sons or Daughters	George Putnam	Ed Bianchi
10	1010	5\|23\|04	Mr. Wu	Bryan McDonald	Dan Minahan
11	1011	6\|6\|04	Jewell's Boot is Made for Walking	Ricky Jay	Steve Shill
12	1012	6\|13\|04	Sold Under Sin	Ted Mann	Davis Guggenheim
13	2001	3\|6\|05	A Lie Agreed Upon	David Milch	Ed Bianchi
14	2002	3\|13\|05	A Lie Agreed Upon (2)	Jody Worth	Ed Bianchi
15	2003	3\|20\|05	New Money	Elizabeth Sarnoff	Steve Shill
16	2004	3\|27\|05	Requiem for a Gleet	Ted Mann	Alan Taylor
17	2005	4\|3\|05	Complications	Victoria Morrow	Gregg Fienberg
18	2006	4\|10\|05	Something Very Expensive	Steve Shill	Steve Shill
19	2007	4\|17\|05	E. B. Was Left Out	Jody Worth	Michael Almereyda
20	2008	4\|24\|05	Childish Things	Regina Corrado	Timothy Van Patten
21	2009	5\|1\|05	Amalgamation and Capital	Elizabeth Sarnoff	Ed Bianchi
22	2010	5\|8\|05	Advances, None Miraculous	Sara Hess	Dan Minahan
23	2011	5\|15\|05	The Whores Can Come	Bryan McDonald	Gregg Fienberg
24	2012	5\|22\|05	Boy the Earth Talks To	Ted Mann	Ed Bianchi