"I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …" https://t.co/l6kEFLTUgJ
Out now: my new book Reframing Cult Westerns (@BloomsburyAcad). Chapters by Paul Kerr, Peter J. Hanley, Cynthia J. Miller, @craigimann, @DocMelia, Hamish Ford, Sonja Simonyi, Chelsea Wessels, @JennyLeeBarrett, Jack Weatherston, @MoodieThomas & me #FilmStudies#SpaghettiWesterns
YOJIMBO (1961)
Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Read about the transnational westerns this film inspired: https://t.co/YxFbx58uIG
My review of "Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder" is out in @clereviewbooks today!
A highly readable & well-researched biography of "A woman... whose life, hopes, and dreams speak to the fundamentals of the American character."
https://t.co/iDJ5KJEymR
"For a people obsessed with expansion, Americans have spent more than a century confused about how best to tell the history of their spread into the West." @karl_jacoby writes: https://t.co/FoZcKObJGq
My review of Dale Martin's recent Telegraph Wires: Railroads and Communities in Montana and the West is in the recent edition of Montana The Magazine of Western History. Fun to be published with @MTHist
Just received proofs for my chapter in @LeeVanBee's upcoming edited collection REFRAMING CULT WESTERNS, and for once I actually think it's pretty good. Looking forward to getting a physical copy of the book (which also features writing by the likes of @DrAPNelson and @DocMelia).
I started my October/Halloween season viewing last night with a screening of Alex Turner's ace horror Western 'Dead Birds' (2004). It's a near perfect mix of genres: the film's Western and horror aspects fit together in an unforced manner and compliment each other really well
The #AmericanWest was colonized space, but it was also a crucible for the broader changes in American society during the first half of the 20th century. David M. Wrobel, author of AMERICA'S WEST (@cambUP_History), joins @stephenhausmann on the #podcast ⤵️
https://t.co/O1epmq8EL0
There are words we created because we are scared of calling frightening things by their true names, scared of summoning them or giving them power. These words are called, among linguists, taboo deformations. https://t.co/Mw93vidsnu
The latest issue of Western American literature is a feast of ideas and insights on the Global Western, edited by @chrisconway1969 and David Rio. #westerns https://t.co/cRlk7mQ4Te