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Book SynopsisPart cultural criticism, part history, and wholly entertaining, this series of essays on specific films, books, music, and other cultural texts brings a fresh perspective to long-studied topics. Under Garrett-Davis's careful observation, cultural objects occupy the terrain of where the West as region meets the Western genre.
Trade ReviewThis provocative and timely study employs local, national, and global perspectives to ask not only
what but
where the Western is today. Blending humor with careful scholarly study, Josh Garrett-Davis takes readers on a lively tour, showing the unexpected changes and often delightful permutations that have transformed the popular Western in recent years. This book will forever change the way we read, watch, discuss, and enjoy the Western." - Susan Kollin, editor of
A History of Western American Literature"From cowboy icons to the diverse demography that has always characterized the West, from art, novels, and poems to music, movies, and museums, Josh Garrett-Davis provides a smart, engaging, illuminating, and wonderfully well-written set of takes on the Western genre that will appeal to scholars and students in a wide range of fields, as well as to larger audiences who care about this much contested, imagined, and reimagined region." - David M. Wrobel, author of
America's West: A History, 1890 - 1950
