Old West Now

The Old West in Modern & Contemporary Culture. Follow for #wildwest & #westerns 🤠🌵🐎🥃♠️

[Old West Now @OldWestNow]

"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

[Old West Now @OldWestNow]

Bullets, Action, Death! Marketing "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) in Mexico https://t.co/ggLL4Q9c2S

[Lee Broughton @LeeVanBee]

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

[Literary Hub @lithub]

A look at Larry McMurtry's enviable home library. https://t.co/uwdK93Lchf

[Independent Arts @IndyArts]

75-year-old woman's emotional Red Dead Redemption 2 essay goes viral https://t.co/Wnfl2f5YCx

[Yale University Press @yalepress]

“I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.” https://t.co/UYi2c5nmyh

[One Perfect Shot @OnePerfectShot]

YOJIMBO (1961)

Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Read about the transnational westerns this film inspired: https://t.co/YxFbx58uIG

[Old West Now @OldWestNow]

Cowboy Angels (2017) is a portfolio of five woodcuts with fabric collage created by contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare https://t.co/k59ybbYQe5

[Victoria Addis @VictoriaAddis]

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

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"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

[Daniel J. Burge @DanielJBurge]

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

[Craig Ian Mann @craigimann]

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).

[Lee Broughton @LeeVanBee]

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

[Victoria Addis @VictoriaAddis]

John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961 https://t.co/jofThg2VfJ via @lithub

[Yellowstone @Yellowstone]

‘Yellowstone’ Proves There Is Still an Appetite for TV Westerns https://t.co/vCopplv0qG

[NB American West @NewBooksAmWest]

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

[Atlas Obscura @atlasobscura]

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

[Classic Movie Hub @ClassicMovieHub]

James Garner, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Walter Burke, Henry Jones and Willis Bouchey in Support Your Local Sheriff, 1969...

[Victoria Addis @VictoriaAddis]

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