TY - BOOK AU - Campbell,Neil TI - The Cultures of the American New West T2 - BAAS Paperbacks : BAAS SN - 9780748611768 U1 - 306/.0978 21 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Arts, American KW - 20th century KW - West (U.S.) KW - Popular culture KW - Literary Studies KW - HISTORY / United States / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of Plates --; Introduction: Mapping the New West --; 1 Landscapes of the New West --; 2 Visualizing the New West --; 3 Alternative Histories/Other Wests --; 4 New West Postmodemism and Urbanism --; Epilogue: The Rhizomatic West --; Bibliography and Further Reading --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748611768);An introductory survey of the important debates about key issues in the cultural history of the contemporary American West. Neil Campbell introduces the ways in which the West has been represented and interpreted within American culture, myth and ideology, especially questioning the concept of the 'New West'. In so doing he looks at the way contemporary theories such as feminism, multiculturalism and environmentalism can be used to revise long-held notions of the West. The book looks in turn at the ways the West has been represented in landscapes and environments, art and photography, film, and literatureIntroduces theoretical ideas from Bakhtin, Benjamin, Foucault, Deleuze and GuattariLooks at the landscape photography of Ansel Adams, Mark Klett and Richard MisrachExplores Westerns including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Lonely are the Brave, Unforgiven and Heaven's GateAnalyses the work of authors such as Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Raymond ChandlerIncludes Native American (Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie and Gerald Vizenor) and Chicano/a (Gloria Anzaldua and Sandra Cisneros) literatureAs well as functioning as a survey text, the book is original in its combining of ideas, texts and materials rarely brought together, and in its employment of the tools of cultural studies and interdisciplinary practice. As such it will challenge the reader to reconsider conventional ideas about the American West. Illustrated with black and white photographs, this is an accessible and exciting intervention in one of the most popular aspects of American history." UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474465618 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474465618 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474465618/original ER -