Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West - Couverture souple

Grady, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1477334610 ISBN 13 : 9781477334614

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2026

Synopsis

2025 Best Single Author Book, Midwest Popular Culture Association2025 Longlist, Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction, Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers AssociationA history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media, Grady engages with several key historical timeframes, from the origins of the Western in the nineteenth-century illustrated press; through fin de siècle anxieties with the closing of the frontier, and the centrality of cowboy adventure across the interwar, postwar, and high Cold War years; to the revisions of the genre in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Western's continued vitality in contemporary comics storytelling.In its study of stories about vengeance, conquest, and justice on the contested frontier, Redrawing the Western highlights how the "simplistic" conflicts common in Western adventure comics could disguise highly political undercurrents, providing young readers with new ways to think about the contemporaneous social and political milieu. Besides tracing the history, forms, and politics of American Western comics in and around the twentieth century, William Grady offers an original reassessment of the important role of comics in the development of the Western genre, ranking them alongside popular fiction and film in the process.

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À propos de l'auteur

William Grady is an independent scholar and librarian.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1477334610
• ISBN 13: 9781477334614
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible