{"product_id":"the-comic-book-western-9781496231642","title":"The Comic Book Western","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few American cultural exports have been as successful globally as the Western, a phenomenon commonly attributed to the widespread circulation of fiction, film, and television. \u003ci\u003eThe Comic Book Western\u003c\/i\u003e centers comics in the Western’s international success. Even as readers consumed translations of American comic book Westerns, they fell in love with local ones that became national or international sensations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These essays reveal the unexpected cross-pollinations that allowed the Western to emerge from and speak to a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, including Spanish and Italian fascism, Polish historical memory, the ideology of \u003ci\u003eshojo \u003c\/i\u003emanga from Japan, British post-apocalypticism and the gothic, race and identity in Canada, Mexican gender politic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With thirty-four black-and-white illustrations, this well-edited and beautifully produced book is as engaging as it is ambitious, as illuminating as it is important. All of the essays speak to the breadth, variety, and adaptability of the Western genre, as well as to the power of Western comics to function as important social and aesthetic productions in a variety of cultural settings. No future work on the Western genre in comics will be able to ignore it.\"—Daniel Pinti, \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Conway and Sol have assembled a rich anthology, a balanced, insightful volume that effectively addresses the global nature of its subject. . . . I suspect comics scholars interested in the Western genre, or in comparative studies in general, will find this a useful resource for years to come.\"—Chris York, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Comic Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection is an erudite and persuasive rejoinder that the Western matters, and matters internationally, and that Western comics are a vital and important example of how and why.\"—David Huxley, \u003ci\u003ePublishing Research Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stories of how different nations tell stories that resonate to their citizens using the settings and tropes of the American West make for interesting reading.\"—Jeffery J. Mariotte, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Masterfully organized and expansive in scope, \u003ci\u003eThe Comic Book Western\u003c\/i\u003e brings together diverse perspectives on the global reach of Western comics. Simply a must-read for readers interested in popular culture, frontier myths, and the transnational life of cultural goods.”—William Acree, author of \u003ci\u003eStaging Frontiers: The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Creators outside the United States have restaged the Western’s themes to explore their own culture and politics since the beginning of comics. This volume is especially welcome because it looks at the importance of translation, transcreation, adoption, reterritorialization, and hybridity in relation to global comic studies.”—Flavia Brizio-Skov, author of \u003ci\u003eRide the Frontier: Exploring the Myth of the American West on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The assembled scholars beautifully trace how the oft-overlooked Western comic is truly adventurous, engaging, critical, and vital for any study of transnational and global comics today.”—Nhora Lucía Serrano, editor of \u003ci\u003eImmigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This excellent collection unpacks over a hundred years of reinventions of the frontier theme in comic books and offers trailblazing new readings of the entanglements between the various national traditions. Examining as it does the global reach of the comic book Western genre, and firmly positioning it in the context of transnational comic book history, Conway and Sol’s volume is essential reading.”—Ewa Stańczyk, editor of \u003ci\u003eComic Books, Graphic Novels, and the Holocaust \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The essays collected here establish the historical origins for the international fascination with the American West and its stories, tracing how the Western migrated from other media into comic books and situating the Western comic within the broader context of graphic narratives in their home countries. Together, they reveal how the Western comic both affirms and challenges local and imported cultural traditions and conventions.”—Andrew Patrick Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eStill in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969–1980\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Globalization of the Comic Book Western\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Transnational Histories\u003cbr\u003e 1. Italian Western Comics and the Myth of the Open Frontier\u003cbr\u003e Simone Castaldi\u003cbr\u003e 2. Comic Book Westerns and the Melodramatic Imagination in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Conway\u003cbr\u003e 3. German Western Readers and the Transnational Imagination\u003cbr\u003e Johannes Fehrle\u003cbr\u003e 4. Beyond Parody: Polish Comic Book Westerns from the 1960s through the 2010s\u003cbr\u003e Marek Paryz\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eBlueberry\u003c\/i\u003e: Remaking the Western in Franco-Belgian \u003ci\u003eBandes dessinées\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Antoinette Sol\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Critical Reinscriptions\u003cbr\u003e 6. Argentina’s Outlaws and the Revisionist Western: The Case of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt’s \u003ci\u003eSargento Kirk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Manuela Borzone\u003cbr\u003e 7. British Comics and the Western: The Future West, the Supernatural, and Strong Women in \u003ci\u003eThe HellTrekkers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMissionary Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lee Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 8. Canada’s \u003ci\u003eTriumph Comics\u003c\/i\u003e and David Garneau’s Métis Response to the “Indian” of the Comic Book Western\u003cbr\u003e Joel Deshaye\u003cbr\u003e 9. A Spanish View of the American West: El Coyote and His Comic Magazine\u003cbr\u003e David Rio\u003cbr\u003e 10. Faraway So Close: The Representation of the American West in Igarashi Yumiko’s \u003ci\u003eMayme Angel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rebecca Suter\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867323019607,"sku":"9781496231642","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496231642.jpg?v=1722282789","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-comic-book-western-9781496231642","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}