Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture [Hardcover]

Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture expands and develops an understanding of recent cultural shifts in representations of the American cowboy and the West as vital components of American identity and values. The chapters in this book examine they ways in which twenty-first century representations have updated the figure of the cowboy, considering not only traditionally analyzed sources, such as television, film, and literature, but also less studied areas such as comics, and music. The contributors probe the cowboy archetype and western mythology with critical theory, feminist critiques, philosophy, history, cultural analysis, and more.Clint Jones is full-time instructor of philosophy at Capital University.Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture offers a rich portrait of a shape-shifting American archetype in the twenty-first century. These scholars approach the frontier and the cowboy in many mediums and from a diverse array of disciplinary perspectives. Far from dying out, the Western rides on in new and surprising forms. Josh Garrett-Davis, Autry Museum of the American West and author of What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination

Chapter 1: The Gaucho in a Globalized World
Adam Barkman & Enzo Guerra
Chapter 2.: The Philosophy of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Judge Holden and
Heraclitus
Jerold J. Abrams
Chapter 3: Horse Sense: Discerning a Dialectic of Human Relations from Buck
and The Rider
Jennifer L. McMahon
Chapter 4: Should've Been a Cowboy': Changing Yet Stable Representations of the
Cowboy in Modern American Country Music
Gillian Kelly
Chapter 5: Can You Hear Me? Springsteen's 'Outlaw Pete' as American 'Hero
Lilian Haney and John Thompson
Chapter 6: I Can't Go Back: The Re-imagination of Space in Feminist Westerns
Karen Adkins
Chapter 7: They Forgot to Put in the Quit': Representations of Whiteness and
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