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The comic book western : new perspectives on a global genre / edited by Christopher Conway, Antoinette Sol.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Postwestern Horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.
- Western comic books, strips, etc.
- West (U.S.)--In literature.
- West (U.S.).
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781496232236
- 1496232232
- OCLC:
- 1306062700
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