Wanted Dead or Alive presents the first ever comprehensive look at how the American West has been depicted in popular culture. Following Richard Aquila's introduction, which examines the birth and growth of the pop culture West in the context of American history, noted expects explore developments in popular western fiction, major forms of live western entertainment, trends in western movies and television shows, images of the West in popular music, and visual images of the West in popular art and advertising. For the reader on the trail of even more information, each section of the book concludes with suggestions for further reading.
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"A valuable chronicle of the development of the Western story form across the mass media." -- Michael T. Marsden, coeditor, Journal of Popular Film and Television
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This review is from: Wanted Dead or Alive: THE AMERICAN WEST IN POPULAR CULTURE (Hardcover)
Wanted Dead or Alive is an excellent overview of the American West in popular culture. While the conclusions within this anthology are all similar and reflect a revisionist (New Western History) slant, the vast array of topics covered, represent the only overview of the subject I am aware of.
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READ COLLECTIVELY DIME novels and their descendants tell the story of the frontier West's commodification in popular literature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
colorful western characters, pop culture products, mythic cowboy, new western history, western imagery, country performers, cowboy singers, western heroes, western myth, cowboy heroes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American West, Old West, Buffalo Bill, John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Native Americans, Owen Wister, United States, Zane Grey, Frederic Remington, Lone Ranger, Max Brand, Bowling Green, Ken Maynard, Billy the Kid, Garth Brooks, Hopalong Cassidy, John Ford, Willie Nelson, Deadwood Dick, San Francisco, Louis L'Amour, Sons of the Pioneers New!
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READ COLLECTIVELY DIME novels and their descendants tell the story of the frontier West's commodification in popular literature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
colorful western characters, pop culture products, mythic cowboy, new western history, western imagery, country performers, cowboy singers, western heroes, western myth, cowboy heroes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American West, Old West, Buffalo Bill, John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Native Americans, Owen Wister, United States, Zane Grey, Frederic Remington, Lone Ranger, Max Brand, Bowling Green, Ken Maynard, Billy the Kid, Garth Brooks, Hopalong Cassidy, John Ford, Willie Nelson, Deadwood Dick, San Francisco, Louis L'Amour, Sons of the Pioneers New!
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- Thomas Moran by Nancy K. Anderson on 6 pages
- The Singing Cowboys by David Rothel on 5 pages
- The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner on 5 pages
- Trails: Toward a New Western History by Patricia Nelson Limerick on 5 pages
- Significance of the Frontier in American History by Frederick J. Turner on 5 pages
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