No Single Trajectory : : Transnational and Transmedia Explorations of the American West.

• Superior document: European Perspectives on the United States Series ; v.10
• Author: Chaparro Sainz, Ángel.
• TeilnehmendeR: González López, Jesús Ángel.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European Perspectives on the United States Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 pages)

This book presents papers by eleven European scholars that explore the ambivalent representations of an American West that follows "no single trajectory" in different cultural productions, ranging from music to film or comics, and including podcasts, fashion, and gastronomy.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Informations -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: A View of the West from Three Thousand Miles Away -- Part 1: Sing-Along Melodies of the West -- In 'The Fitzgerald' -- 1 Reno, Nevada -- 2 On the Slide -- 3 Grind Town -- 4 Crime Songs -- 5 Undone by Each Other -- 6 Darkness Awakening -- EDM Travels West in the New Millennium -- 1 Introduction: New Visions of the West or Visions of the New West? -- 2 Bridging Genres and Unexpected Amalgamations -- 3 The Critical Role of Collaborations -- 4 Visual Reinforcements and Audiences -- 5 Closing Remarks and a Few Words of Recognition -- "Go West, Jazzman!" The Los Angeles Music Scene, Blackness, and Gender in Wanda Coleman's Short Story "Jazz at Twelve" -- Part 2: Western Images in Motion -- Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken: Female and Horse Performance in the Wild West Show -- 1 Horse Performance: the Horse as Athlete and Actor -- 2 Horse Power: Female Athleticism in Crossspecies Relations -- 3 "My Destiny Lies Anywhere Else": Female Identity, Work and Entertainment -- 4 Conclusion -- "This Is the Land of Wolves Now": the Uses of the Professional Western in Contemporary Film Depictions of the U.S.-Mexican Border -- 1 Extreme Prejudice -- 2 The Bad Pack -- 3 Once Upon a Time in Mexico -- 4 Sicario -- 5 Conclusion -- "Shane! Come Back!": Six Rewritings for the Same Myth -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Children and Time -- 3 Women and Home -- 4 Conclusion -- Part 3: Performing the West: Podcasts, Fashion &amp -- Gastronomy -- The Western Look in High and Low Couture- (Re)Enacting the (Male) Myth -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On the Function and Meaning of Clothing -- 3 The American West and Its Significance -- 4 The Western Genre (Is Back-and "In").

5 The Western Look in High and Low Couture-(Re)Enacting the (Male) Myth -- 6 A Concluding Remark -- Eat, Drink, and Be Basque American in the West -- Latinx Podcasts in the American West: Revising the Myth, Creating New Spaces -- 1 The American West, a Diverse Space -- 2 Podcasts, a Fast-Growing Digital Medium -- 3 Latinx Podcasting in the American West, Creating New Spaces -- 4 Podcast Platformization, Cha(lle)nging the Industry -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Part 4: Graphic Representations of the American West -- The El Sheriff King Comic: a Spanish Hybrid Version of the Western -- 1 El Sheriff King and the American West in Spanish Comics -- 2 Beyond Frontier Individualism -- 3 A Multicultural West -- 4 Women's Visibility and Gender Stereotypes -- 5 Conclusion -- Quixotic Cowboys: From Stephen Chalmer's Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande to Christian Lax' Un certain Cervantes (2015) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Don Quixote in the United States: an Overview -- 3 Quixotes of the Frontier: Don Quixote and the American West -- 4 Conclusions -- Index -- Back Cover.