Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture
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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.
PrefaceIntroduction: The Pop Culture West11Malaeska's Revenge; or, The Dime Novel Tradition in Popular Fiction212Writers of the Purple Sage: Novelists and the American West433Let'er Rip: Popular Culture Images of the American West in Wild West Shows, Rodeos, and Rendezvous734Westbound: Feature Films and the American West1095The Good Guys Wore White Hats: The B Western in American Culture1356Prime-Time Bonanza! The Western on Television1607A Blaze of Glory: The Mythic West in Pop and Rock Music1918Cool Water, Rye Whiskey, and Cowboys: Images of the West in Country Music2169Viewing the West: The Popular Culture of American Western Painting24310Selling the Myth: Western Images in Advertising269Contributors293Index295
