Like the classic movies on the Far West, the quintessential film narratives of the Deep South have greatly impacted the popular understanding of American history and American values. While the canonized Western has relentlessly foregrounded the idea of individual freedom and the conquest of the wilderness, the more elusive and controversial Southern genre bears the persistent ideological traces of slavery and segregation. However, this Revue LISA/LISA e-journal issue “When the West/ern meets the South/ern” explores the jarring and often unexpected connections between the two basically distinct generic categories, well before the 2012 release of Django unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s provocatively Westernized Southern (or Southernized Western...