The comic book western : new perspectives on a global genre
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The comic book western : new perspectives on a global genre
(Postwestern horizons)
University of Nebraska Press, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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2023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture
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. The Comic Book Western 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.
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 shojo manga from Japan, British post-apocalypticism and the gothic, race and identity in Canada, Mexican gender politics, French critiques of manifest destiny, and gaucho nationalism in Argentina. The vibrant themes uncovered in The Comic Book Western teach us that international comic book Westerns are not hollow imitations but complex and aesthetically powerful statements about identity, culture, and politics.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Globalization of the Comic Book Western
Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol
Part 1. Transnational Histories
1. Italian Western Comics and the Myth of the Open Frontier
Simone Castaldi
2. Comic Book Westerns and the Melodramatic Imagination in Mexico
Christopher Conway
3. German Western Readers and the Transnational Imagination
Johannes Fehrle
4. Beyond Parody: Polish Comic Book Westerns from the 1960s through the 2010s
Marek Paryz
5. Blueberry: Remaking the Western in Franco-Belgian Bandes dessinees
Antoinette Sol
Part 2. Critical Reinscriptions
6. Argentina's Outlaws and the Revisionist Western: The Case of Hector German Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt's Sargento Kirk
Manuela Borzone
7. British Comics and the Western: The Future West, the Supernatural, and Strong Women in The HellTrekkers, The Dead Man, and Missionary Man
Lee Broughton
8. Canada's Triumph Comics and David Garneau's Metis Response to the "Indian" of the Comic Book Western
Joel Deshaye
9. A Spanish View of the American West: El Coyote and His Comic Magazine
David Rio
10. Faraway So Close: The Representation of the American West in Igarashi Yumiko's Mayme Angel
Rebecca Suter
Contributors
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"