Gauguin, Buffalo Bill, and the Cowboy Hat by Nancy Mowll Mathews

“…In this paper, I show how the French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin absorbed Buffalo Bill’s dual cowboy and Indian mythologies from his visits to the Wild West show, which ran alongside the 1889 Paris international exposition. …”
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Saumade Frédéric et Jean-Baptiste Maudet, Cowboys, clowns et toreros : l’Amérique réversible by Thierry Veyrié

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The Frontier in Paris: Artists from the American West in the French Capital, 1890–1900 by James R. Swensen

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Türk Western’ine Yapısalcı Bir Yaklaşım: Yahşi Batı Örneği by Şükrü Sim, Semih Göncü

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O poder de denúncia do cordel no cinema: O romance do vaqueiro voador, de João Bosco Bezerra Bonfim e Manfredo Caldas by Sylvie Debs

“…This article aims to discuss some questions: why choose as a character a pot cowboy to wander in the places of the tragedy? Why use a cordel to give origin to another movie?…”
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“Helt Texas, Morgan Kane!”: Notes on the Pedagogies of Finding, Documenting, and Teaching the American West in Norwegian Backyards by Stefan Rabitsch

“…For example, the students’ findings included but were not limited to country-specific (re)imaginings of the mythic West in different media, heterotopic spaces of performance, play, consumption and the hyperreal, instances of ‘playing Indian,’ iconographic scatterings, cowboy/Western poetics in music, and more. Ultimately, this article illustrates how that which we study from afar may be found in more local(ized) Norwegian contexts, imaginaries, and cultural practices. …”
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Transformations of the American hero in the US media discourse by Svitlana Lyubymova

“…In different periods, the American hero is represented by a first settler, a cowboy, a ranger, a scientist. This stereotype functions as a model pattern for evaluating individuals and social groups. …”
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Penser éducation au politique et questions environnementales dans la démocratie by Camille Roelens

“…A brief illustrative study of the approach and work of the Canadian music group Les Cowboys fringants (3) shows how this type of informal educator can play an important role to provide resources and porpositions of influence for human autonomy in dealing with environmental issues within the democratic political framework.…”
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Cherchez la Femme en The Ox-Bow Incident de Wellman: analizando fractales by Rose Lema

“…Por último, se argumenta que la Geometría Fractal de la Naturaleza conduce a descentralizar el rol de los cowboys que llevan a cabo el linchamiento, mientras que se centra el papel de las mujeres, y, en especial, a visualizar dos personajes femeninos virtuales, gesto que rompe con la aparente linearidad de la trama.…”
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O segredo de Brokeback Mountain e Boi Neon: paisagens, masculinidades e normatividades de genero by Breno César de Almeida da Silva, Rafael De Tilio

“…De manera general, los cowboys del Secreto en la Montaña son hombres hipermasculinizados (viriles, trabajadores y agresivos) que aunque mantienen relaciones sexuales no se consideran homosexuales ya que están casados con mujeres y tienen hijos; y los campesinos presentes en Boi Neon también ejercen papeles típicos de hombres heterosexuales a pesar de tener actitudes y representaciones no siempre consideradas heteronormativas por sus géneros. …”
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