This book examines the role of comics in the perpetuation of the myth of the American West. In particular, it looks at the ways in which lone central characters

2023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture One of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Weste

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and materi

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As t

Contributions by José Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Sti