Redrawing the Western – A History of American Comics and the Mythic West: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Autor William Gradyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 noi 2024
A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781477329986
ISBN-10: 1477329986
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 75 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MU – University of Texas Press
Seria World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
ISBN-10: 1477329986
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 75 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MU – University of Texas Press
Seria World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Cuprins
- List of Illlustrations
- Introduction. Rethinking the Western Genre through Comics
- Part 1. The Origins of the Mythic West in Comics, 1800s–1930s
- Chapter 1. “Print the Legend”: Imagining the American West in the Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Press
- Chapter 2. The Spectacle of the Southwest: Postfrontier Imaginings of the Far West in Newspaper Comic Strips
- Chapter 3. Saddling Up in the Slump: Retooling the Western during the Depression
- Part 2. A Golden Age of Western Comics, 1940s–1970s
- Chapter 4. Cowboys, Crooks, and Comic Books: The Western Stands Tall
- Chapter 5. Nuclear Showdown: Western Comic Books Ride through the Cold War
- Chapter 6. “I Know It’s Not in the Romantic Western Spirit”: Subverting the Mythic West in Postwar Comics
- Chapter 7. Blood on the Borders: Mixing the Wild West with Political Unrest in Comics from the Troubled 1960s and 1970s
- Coda. Walking on the Bones of the Dead: Comics and the Western’s “Afterlife”
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index