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Introduction:Thus in the beginning all the World was America -- Part I: Foundings, Law, Lawlessness, and John Ford -- Chapter 1. Virtue, Tyranny, and Political Rule in David Milch's Deadwood -- Chapter 2. Print the Legend: Violence, Virtue, and the Social Contract in Hang 'Em High and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance -- Chapter 3. John Ford's Legendary Western Ambiguity and White Settler Colonialism -- Chapter 4. This is Our Town': Political Community in High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance -- Part II: The Western as Mirror and Teacher -- Chapter 5. Simmering Madness: Mob Justice and The Ox-Bow Incident -- Chapter 6. The Loner on the 'Frontier of Unfilled Hopes and Unfilled Threats': Serling's Old West in Kennedy's New Frontier -- Chapter 7. No Man's Land: Film Cycles, Femininity, and Female Empowerment in the Modern Western -- Chapter 8. Horse Operas Talk Back: History, Memory, and the Black Cowboy Performing -- Chapter 9. Aristophanes in Spurs: Blazing Saddles, Attic Comedy, HBO, and the Politics of Democratic Laughter -- Part III: The Adaptable, International West -- Chapter 10. Towards Assimilationist Politics on the Filmic Frontier: Mid-Twentieth Century Westerns in Australia -- Chapter 11.Ideological Uses of the Western in Film Depictions of Post-War Polish Borderlands -- Chapter 12.Magnificent Strangers: Violence and Difference.

1. "The American Nightmare: Graveyard Voters, Demon Sheep, Devil Women, and Lizard People" -- 2. "Horror, Crisis, and Control: Tales of Facing Evils" -- "We're Witches and We're Hunting You: Matriarchy and Misogyny in Conjure Wife" -- 4. "The Democratic Impulse in Post-Apocalyptic Films" -- 5. "Through a Glass Darkly: The Dimensionality and Inadequacy of Political Fear in Stephen King's The Stand" -- 6. "The Monsters Among Us: Realism and Constructivism in Vampire: The Masquerade" -- 7. "Anxiety in Suburbia: The Politics of Gaming in Neighbourhood 3: Requisition of Doom" -- 8. "The Exorcist and a New Kind of American Television Horror" -- 9. "Reality TV as Horror: Psychological Terror and Physical Torture" -- 10. "Zombie Komiks in a Cacique Democracy: Patay Kung Patay's Undead Revolution" -- 11. "...Just as You Will Do to One Another!": Colonialism that Consumes Itself in Warren Publications' Creepy" -- 12. "Witches in the South: Past, Present, and in Comics" -- 13. "Bring Him the blood of the outlanders!": Children of the Corn as Farm Crisis Horror -- 14. "mother! and the Horror of Environmental Abuse" -- 15. "Let the Bodies (of Water) Hit the Floor: Development and Exploitation in John Boorman's Deliverance" -- 16. "The Mayor of Shark City": Political Power in Jaws" -- 17. "Fear of Founding from Plato to Poltergeist" -- 18. "Post-Racial Lies and Fear of the Historical-Political Boomerang in Jordan Peele's Get Out and Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad" -- 19. "'The Mother Who Eats Her Own': The Politics of Motherhood in Irish Horror" -- 20. "Frankenstein's Dream and the Politics of Death".

Introduction: "I don't want Batman as president" / Damien K. Picariello -- Justice unmasked / Alan I. Baily -- The Dark Knight: toward a democratic tragedy / Steven Johnston -- The heroism of sober expectations / Damien K. Picariello -- Deconstructing Batman's legitimacy: the radical political critique of Christopher Nolan's Batman cycle / William J. Berger -- Batman the noble dog: the costs of spiritedness for the individual and society / Ian J. Drake and Matthew B. Lloyd -- The Dark Prince of the Republic: Machiavelli, Batman, and Gotham City / Anthony Petros Spanakos -- The lion, the fox, and the bat: the animal nature of Machiavelli's The Prince and Batman / Daniel V. Goff -- Criminal justice in Gotham: the role of the Dark Knight / Mark D. White -- The retributive Knight / Mohamad Al-Hakim -- Politics as "the product of everything you fear": Scarecrow as phobia entrepreneur / Christina M. Knopf -- #FAKENEWS in Gotham City / Salvatore James Russo -- Batgirls and the politics of feminism in Gotham / Carolyn Cocca -- Dawn of justice: revisioning, accountability, and Batman in the twenty-first century / Aidan Diamond -- Index.

In Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, the playwright depicts the punishment of Prometheus by the tyrannical Zeus. Zeus' subordinates understand his tyranny to be characterized by an absolute freedom of action. Yet the tyrant's absolute freedom as ruler is called into question by insecurity of his position and by his dependence on Prometheus' knowledge. We find in the Prometheus Bound a model of tyrannical rule riddled with contradictions: The tyrant's claim to total control and absolute freedom is in tension with a reality characterized by insecurity, impotence, and constraint. We contrast this model of rule with the model found in Aeschylus' Suppliant Maidens, in which the King, agreeing to be bound by the wishes of his subjects, nevertheless preserves for himself a certain freedom of action that the tyrannical ruler lacks.