Introduction: reexamining John Wayne
The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties
Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy
John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade
John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers
John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost
John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade
And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha
Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo
Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.