Redrawing the Western

Redrawing the Western

A History of American Comics and the Mythic West

Grady, William

University of Texas Press

11/2024

304

Dura

9781477329986

15 a 20 dias

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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
Gasoline Alley; Krazy Kat; Red Ryder; The Lone Ranger; Jonah Hex; Rawhide Kid; Two-Gun Kid; Weird Western Tales; All-Star Western; Indigenous comics; Cowboy comics; 19th Century Comic Strips; 20th Century Comic Strips; Westerns; Comic History; Weird Western comics; Post-Western comics; Western American Literary & Cultural Studies; Mythic west