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

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

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:William GradySeries:World Comics and Graphic NonfictionPublish date:2024-11-12Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477329986ISBN-10:1477329986UPC:9781477329986Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Comics & Graphic Novels, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC985GKKT9

A 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 si?cle 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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477329986ISBN-10:1477329986UPC:9781477329986Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Comics & Graphic Novels, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC985GKKT9

William Grady is an independent scholar and librarian.


Publisher: University of Texas Press

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