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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822566503321

Titolo

The comic book western : new perspectives on a global genre / / edited by Christopher Conway, Antoinette Sol

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4962-3223-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages)

Collana

Postwestern Horizons

Classificazione

LIT017000CGN007020

Disciplina

741.59

Soggetti

Western comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Literary criticism

West (U.S.) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Transnational Histories -- 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. Critical Reinscriptions -- 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 West -- 10. Faraway So Close -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world"--