{"product_id":"contemporary-cowboys-reimagining-an-american-archetype-in-popular-culture-9781666920178","title":"Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture expands and develops an understanding of recent cultural shifts in representations of the American cowboy and “the West” as vital components of American identity and values. The chapters in this volume examine they ways in which twenty-first century representations have updated the figure of the cowboy, considering not only traditionally analyzed sources, such as television, film, and literature, but also less studied areas such as comics, and music. The authors probe the cowboy archetype and western mythology with critical theory, feminist critiques, philosophy, history, cultural analysis, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary Cowboys offers a rich portrait of a shape-shifting American archetype in the twenty-first century. These scholars approach the frontier and the cowboy in many mediums and from a diverse array of disciplinary perspectives. Far from dying out, the Western rides on in new and surprising forms.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Josh Garrett-Davis, Autry Museum of the American West and author of What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Gaucho in a Globalized World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Barkman \u0026amp; Enzo Guerra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2.: The Philosophy of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: Judge Holden and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeraclitus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerold J. Abrams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Horse Sense: Discerning a Dialectic of Human Relations from Buck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand The Rider”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer L. McMahon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Should’ve Been a Cowboy’: Changing Yet Stable Representations of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCowboy in Modern American Country Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGillian Kelly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Can You Hear Me? Springsteen’s ‘Outlaw Pete’ as American ‘Hero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLilian Haney and John Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: “I Can’t Go Back”: The Re-imagination of Space in Feminist Westerns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Adkins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: They Forgot to Put in the Quit’: Representations of Whiteness and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoundation Myths in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMisty L. Jameson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Slow Cowboys and New Men: Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Cow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Chapman Peek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Rewriting the Western Myth: Marcia Muller’s Private Eye on California\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCindy Hamilton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. The Lone Wolf and the Wild West: How Private Eyes Became the New Cowboys”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDahlia Schweitzer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Disarming the Lone Cowboy: A Return to an Authentic West in The Wild\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBunch and Deadwood”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Walling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Semiotic Landscapes and Fallen Heroes: Repurposing the Myth of the West in Westworld\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13.Graphic Evolutions: Imagining the Cowboy-as-Archetype in Contemporary Comics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClint Jones\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042018132311,"sku":"9781666920178","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-cowboys-reimagining-an-american-archetype-in-popular-culture-9781666920178","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}