{"product_id":"what-is-a-western-region-genre-imagination-9780806163949","title":"What is a Western?: Region, Genre, Imagination","description":"\u003cbr\u003e There's \"western,\" and then there's \"Western\"--and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in \u003ci\u003eWhat Is a Western?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Region, Genre, Imagination. \u003c\/i\u003ePart cultural criticism, part history, and wholly entertaining, this series of essays on specific films, books, music, and other cultural texts brings a fresh perspective to long-studied topics. Under Garrett-Davis's careful observation, cultural objects such as films and literature, art and artifacts, and icons and oddities occupy the terrain of where the West as region meets the Western genre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One crucial through line in the collection is the relationship of regional \"western\" works to genre \"Western\" works, and the ways those two categories cannot be cleanly distinguished--most work about the West is tinted by the Western genre, and Westerns depend on the region for their status and power. Garrett-Davis also seeks to answer the question \"What is a Western \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e?\" To do so, he brings the Western into dialogue with other frameworks of the \"imagined West\" such as Indigenous perspectives, the borderlands, and environmental thinking. The book's mosaic of subject matter includes new perspectives on the classic musical film \u003ci\u003eOklahoma!\u003c\/i\u003e, a consideration of Native activism at Standing Rock, and surprises like \u003ci\u003ePee-wee's Big Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e and Dr. Seuss's \u003ci\u003eThe Lorax. \u003c\/i\u003eThe book is influenced by the borderlands theory of Gloria Anzaldúa and the work of the indie rock band Calexico, as well as the author's own discipline of western cultural history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Richly illustrated, primarily from the collection of the Autry Museum of the American West, Josh Garrett-Davis's work is as visually interesting as it is enlightening, asking readers to consider the American West in new ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josh Garrett-Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 7.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806163949","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45486761017481,"sku":"9780806163949","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_f18a7659-16f2-4498-827f-1d7380d1ca04.jpg?v=1775543288","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/what-is-a-western-region-genre-imagination-9780806163949","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}