Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fine, Kerry, 1974-
2. Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963-
3. Lush, Rebecca M.
4. Spurgeon, Sara L.

Description

1. 453 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Postwestern horizons

Uniform title

1. Postwestern horizons.

Subject

1. Western stories > History and criticism
2. Western television programs > United States > History and criticism
3. Western films > United States > History and criticism
4. Race in literature
5. Women in literature
6. Race on television
7. Women on television
8. Race in motion pictures
9. Women in motion pictures
10. Literature
11. Western films
12. Western stories
13. Western television programs
14. West (U.S.) > In literature
15. United States
16. West United States

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. 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

1. Sc E 21-542

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Weird Westerns : race, gender, genre / edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon.

Publisher

1. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Postwestern horizons
2. Postwestern horizons.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local note

1. ED: ARIZONA STATE. COLL. FOCUSES ON ATYPICAL WESTERNS W/ PROMINENT RACIAL, ETHNIC, & GENDER THEMES.

Added author

1. Fine, Kerry, 1974- editor.
2. Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963- editor.
3. Lush, Rebecca M., editor.
4. Spurgeon, Sara L., editor.

LCCN

1. 2019035378

ISBN

1. 9781496221162 hardcover
2. 1496221168 hardcover

Research call number

1. Sc E 21-542