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The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Globalization of the Comic Book Western
Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol
Part 1. Transnational Histories
1. Italian Western Comics and the Myth of the Open Frontier
Simone Castaldi
2. Comic Book Westerns and the Melodramatic Imagination in Mexico
Christopher Conway
3. German Western Readers and the Transnational Imagination
Johannes Fehrle
4. Beyond Parody: Polish Comic Book Westerns from the 1960s through the 2010s
Marek Paryz
5.
Blueberry: Remaking the Western in Franco-Belgian
Bandes dessinées Antoinette Sol
Part 2. Critical Reinscriptions
6. Argentina’s Outlaws and the Revisionist Western: The Case of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt’s
Sargento Kirk Manuela Borzone
7. British Comics and the Western: The Future West, the Supernatural, and Strong Women in
The HellTrekkers,
The Dead Man, and
Missionary Man Lee Broughton
8. Canada’s
Triumph Comics and David Garneau’s Métis Response to the “Indian” of the Comic Book Western
Joel Deshaye
9. A Spanish View of the American West: El Coyote and His Comic Magazine
David Rio
10. Faraway So Close: The Representation of the American West in Igarashi Yumiko’s
Mayme Angel Rebecca Suter
Contributors
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Christopher Conway is a professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author or editor of several books, including
Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music.
Antoinette Sol is a professor of French at the University of Texas at Arlington and coeditor of MLA’s
Teaching Representations of the French Revolution.
Zusammenfassung
The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.
