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Weird Westerns : race, gender, genre
- Title
- Weird Westerns : race, gender, genre / edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 453 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid genre of the weird western, analyzing movies, TV shows, and comic books such as Django Unchained, The Walking Dead, and Wynonna Earp"--
- Series Statement
- Postwestern horizons
- Uniform Title
- Postwestern horizons.
- Subject
- Western stories > History and criticism
- Western television programs > United States > History and criticism
- Western films > United States > History and criticism
- Race in literature
- Women in literature
- Race on television
- Women on television
- Race in motion pictures
- Women in motion pictures
- Literature
- Western films
- Western stories
- Western television programs
- West (U.S.) > In literature
- United States
- West United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: West world(s) : race, gender, genre in the Weird Western / Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon -- Attack of the monstrous vegetable : Bret Harte's Pioneer nightmare and miscegenation dream / Tara Penry -- "Strange country" : sexuality and the feminine in Robert Coover's Ghost town / Eric Meljac and Alex Hunt -- A selective history : identity and identification in "deadlands" / Nicholas William Moll -- Mongrel transmotion : the werewolf and the were/wear/where-West in Stephen Graham Jones's Mongrels / Joshua T. Anderson -- Indianizing the Western: semiotic tricksterism in William Sanders' Journey to Fusang / Sara L. Spurgeon -- Magnificence and metas in professional Westerns / Domino Renee Perez -- Defamiliarizing the Western on the extraterrestrial frontier : Jonathan Lethem's Girl in landscape / Johannes Fehrle -- "Shining the light of civilization" : the savage other of the frontier in Firefly and Serenity / Meredith Harvey -- Racial metaphors and vanishing Indians in Wynonna Earp, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Emma Bull's Territory / Rebecca M. Lush -- The mad black woman in Stephen King's The dark tower / Jacob Burg -- Uncle Tom's cabin showdown : Stowe, Tarantino, and the minstrelsy of the weird West / Joshua D. Smith -- Race and gender in the time travel Western / Michael K. Johnson -- Go West, old man : or, Buffalo Bill and the "yellow peril" in Zeppelins West / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- AMC's The walking dead and the restructuring of gender and race on the NeoFrontier / Scott Pearce.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-542
- ISBN
- 9781496221162
- 1496221168
- LCCN
- 2019035378
- OCLC
- 1125353338
- Title
- Weird Westerns : race, gender, genre / edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon.
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Postwestern horizonsPostwestern horizons.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- ED: ARIZONA STATE. COLL. FOCUSES ON ATYPICAL WESTERNS W/ PROMINENT RACIAL, ETHNIC, & GENDER THEMES.
- Added Author
- Fine, Kerry, 1974- editor.Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963- editor.Lush, Rebecca M., editor.Spurgeon, Sara L., editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-542