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Informationen zum Autor Neil Campbell is a professor of American studies at the University of Derby. He is the coeditor of Issues in Americanisation and Culture and author of The Cultures of the American New West. Klappentext Neil Campbell is a professor of American studies at the University of Derby. He is the coeditor of Issues in Americanisation and Culture and author of The Cultures of the American New West. Zusammenfassung Using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the rhizome! this book shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American "rootedness" and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIllustrationsIntroduction: Theorizing the Rhizomatic West1. Towards an Expanded Critical Regionalism2. Feasts of Wire: Rubén Martinez and the transfrontera contact zone 3. Welcome to Westworld: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West 4. "The Western in quotes": Generic Variations 5. Dialogical Landscapes: "Outsider" Photography of the West 6. Strata and Routes: Living on Reservation X 7. Postwestern Generations?: Douglas Coupland's "plastic radiant way" Conclusion: On "The Crystal Frontier"
