Authors: Richard Aquila
ISBN-13: 9780252065279, ISBN-10: 0252065271
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: April 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Wanted Dead or Alive presents the first ever comprehensive look at how the American West has been depicted in popular culture. Following Richard Aquila's introduction, which examines the birth and growth of the pop culture West in the context of American history, noted expects explore developments in popular western fiction, major forms of live western entertainment, trends in western movies and television shows, images of the West in popular music, and visual images of the West in popular art and advertising. For the reader on the trail of even more information, each section of the book concludes with suggestions for further reading.
Preface | ||
Introduction: The Pop Culture West | 1 | |
1 | Malaeska's Revenge; or, The Dime Novel Tradition in Popular Fiction | 21 |
2 | Writers of the Purple Sage: Novelists and the American West | 43 |
3 | Let'er Rip: Popular Culture Images of the American West in Wild West Shows, Rodeos, and Rendezvous | 73 |
4 | Westbound: Feature Films and the American West | 109 |
5 | The Good Guys Wore White Hats: The B Western in American Culture | 135 |
6 | Prime-Time Bonanza! The Western on Television | 160 |
7 | A Blaze of Glory: The Mythic West in Pop and Rock Music | 191 |
8 | Cool Water, Rye Whiskey, and Cowboys: Images of the West in Country Music | 216 |
9 | Viewing the West: The Popular Culture of American Western Painting | 243 |
10 | Selling the Myth: Western Images in Advertising | 269 |
Contributors | 293 | |
Index | 295 |