{"product_id":"redrawing-the-western-a-history-of-american-comics-and-the-mythic-west-hardback-9781477329986","title":"Redrawing the Western; A History of American Comics and the Mythic West (Hardback) 9781477329986","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRedrawing the Western\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of American Comics and the Mythic West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Grady (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477329986, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 75 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.708 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRedrawing the Western\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant feat of cultural history that will wow scholars and aficionados of the Western. William Grady’s sure and clear voice guides us through the development of iconic and lesser-known cowboy comics that embody myths of westward expansion, and ethnic and national identity. We have waited too long for an indispensable book like this one.\u003c\/div\u003e - Christopher Conway, author of Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRedrawing the Western\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and lively history of Western comics, with an impressive scale and scope that matches the book’s subject. Grady offers an authoritative account of a major yet overlooked genre in the comics medium, and the book makes the Western newly relevant to the art, history, and politics of modern America.\u003c\/div\u003e - Daniel Worden, author of Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics \u003cdiv\u003e[\u003ci\u003eRedrawing the Western\u003c\/i\u003e is a] perceptive debut study…Throughout, Grady combines sweeping analysis of how western comics reflect broader historical currents with fine-grained interpretations of individual comics…This is worth rounding up.\u003c\/div\u003e (Publishers Weekly) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRedrawing the Western\u003c\/i\u003e is an important addition to the burgeoning field of comic book scholarship.\u003c\/div\u003e (Houston Press) \u003cdiv\u003eGrady does a very good job detailing the trajectory of the comic Western genre...Unlike some books from higher education sources Grady does not go overboard with acadamese. The book remains readable and entertaining and educational.\u003c\/div\u003e (Daily Cartoonist) \u003cdiv\u003eI would recommend \u003ci\u003eRedrawing the Western\u003c\/i\u003e to anyone interested in (Native) American history, (American Western) comic books, or popular culture in general. It is a well-prepared cultural reader and a most welcome addition to all of these fields of literature.\u003c\/div\u003e (H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences) \u003cdiv\u003eGrady presents a complex and multifaceted argument for reimagining the power and impact of comics in Westerns...[This] page-turning work is an important corrective to a historiography that, for decades, largely flattened the many crucial ways in which cartoons of the West, and comics that helped comprise the world of the Western, worked together to craft a national imagination that persists in our expansionist certainty-and perhaps our arrogance-to this day.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Arizona History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRedrawing the Western\u003c\/i\u003e charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media, Grady engages with several key historical timeframes, from the origins of the Western in the nineteenth-century illustrated press; through \u003ci\u003efin de siÈcle\u003c\/i\u003e anxieties with the closing of the frontier, and the centrality of cowboy adventure across the interwar, postwar, and high Cold War years; to the revisions of the genre in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Western’s continued vitality in contemporary comics storytelling. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In its study of stories about vengeance, conquest, and justice on the contested frontier, \u003ci\u003eRedrawing the Western\u003c\/i\u003e highlights how the “simplistic” conflicts common in Western adventure comics could disguise highly political undercurrents, providing young readers with new ways to think about the contemporaneous social and political milieu. Besides tracing the history, forms, and politics of American Western comics in and around the twentieth century, William Grady offers an original reassessment of the important role of comics in the development of the Western genre, ranking them alongside popular fiction and film in the process. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illlustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. Rethinking the Western Genre through Comics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part 1. The Origins of the Mythic West in Comics, 1800s–\u003cbr\u003e1930s \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. “\u003cbr\u003ePrint the Legend”\u003cbr\u003e: Imagining the American West in the Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Press \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. The Spectacle of the Southwest: Postfrontier Imaginings of the Far West in Newspaper Comic Strips \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Saddling Up in the Slump: Retooling the Western during the Depression \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part 2. A Golden Age of Western Comics, 1940s–\u003cbr\u003e1970s \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Cowboys, Crooks, and Comic Books: The Western Stands Tall \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Nuclear Showdown: Western Comic Books Ride through the Cold War \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. “\u003cbr\u003eI Know It’\u003cbr\u003es Not in the Romantic Western Spirit”\u003cbr\u003e: Subverting the Mythic West in Postwar Comics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 7. Blood on the Borders: Mixing the Wild West with Political Unrest in Comics from the Troubled 1960s and 1970s \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Coda. Walking on the Bones of the Dead: Comics and the Western’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eAfterlife”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676616913176,"sku":"9781477329986","price":34.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/redrawing-the-western-a-history-of-american-comics-and-the-mythic-west-hardback-9781477329986","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}