Overview

Contemporary 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 book 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 contributors probe the cowboy archetype and western mythology with critical theory, feminist critiques, philosophy, history, cultural analysis, and more.

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Author:   Jerold J. Abrams ,  Karen Adkins ,  Adam Barkman ,  Caroline Collins
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9781666920178

ISBN 10:   1666920177
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Gaucho in a Globalized World Adam Barkman & Enzo Guerra Chapter 2.: The Philosophy of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: Judge Holden and Heraclitus Jerold J. Abrams Chapter 3: Horse Sense: Discerning a Dialectic of Human Relations from Buck and The Rider” Jennifer L. McMahon Chapter 4: Should’ve Been a Cowboy’: Changing Yet Stable Representations of the Cowboy in Modern American Country Music Gillian Kelly Chapter 5: Can You Hear Me? Springsteen’s ‘Outlaw Pete’ as American ‘Hero Lilian Haney and John Thompson Chapter 6: “I Can’t Go Back”: The Re-imagination of Space in Feminist Westerns Karen Adkins Chapter 7: They Forgot to Put in the Quit’: Representations of Whiteness and Foundation Myths in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Misty L. Jameson Chapter 8. Slow Cowboys and New Men: Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women and First Cow Wendy Chapman Peek Chapter 9. Rewriting the Western Myth: Marcia Muller’s Private Eye on California Cindy Hamilton Chapter 10. The Lone Wolf and the Wild West: How Private Eyes Became the New Cowboys” Dahlia Schweitzer Chapter 11. Disarming the Lone Cowboy: A Return to an Authentic West in The Wild Bunch and Deadwood” Mark Walling Chapter 12. Semiotic Landscapes and Fallen Heroes: Repurposing the Myth of the West in Westworld Caroline Collins Chapter 13.Graphic Evolutions: Imagining the Cowboy-as-Archetype in Contemporary Comics Clint Jones

Reviews

Contemporary 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. -- Josh Garrett-Davis, Autry Museum of the American West and author of What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination

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Clint Jones is full-time instructor of philosophy at Capital University.

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