The Comic Book Western
New Perspectives on a Global Genre
- 342 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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 sh?jo 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1. Italian Western Comics and the Myth of the Open Frontier
- 2. Comic Book Westerns and the Melodramatic Imagination in Mexico
- 3. German Western Readers and the Transnational Imagination
- 4. Beyond Parody
- 5. Blueberry
- Part 2
- 6. Argentina’s Outlaws and the Revisionist Western
- 7. British Comics and the Western
- 8. Canada’s Triumph Comics and David Garneau’s Métis Response to the “Indian” of the Comic Book Western
- 9. A Spanish View of the American Weste
- 10. Faraway So Close
- Contributors
- Index
- About Christopher Conway
- About Antoinette Sol
- Series List