Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre

by Michael K. Johnson and Michael K. Johnson

Book Overview

Looking across the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, its literature, film, television, comic books, and other media, we can see multiple examples of what Shelley S. Rees calls a "changeling western," what others have called "weird westerns," and what Michael K. Johnson refers to as "speculative westerns"--that is, hybrid western forms created by merging the western with one or more speculative genres or subgenres, including science fiction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496233506
• ISBN13: 9781496233509
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"