Too Far Gone: The Psychological Games of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses by Michael Wainwright

“…This article uses Jacques Lacan’s reading of the Freudian fort-dagame to analyze that most American of cultural constructs, the cowboy, at the time of that figure’s fading from the American landscape: the immediate postwar years.  …”
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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Almost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combination of a western-style narrative with a black cowboy hero and a historical drama. …”
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Riding High in the Saddle: African American Subversion in the 1930s Western by Susan Savage Lee

“…Through an analysis of Williams’s adhesion to and disruption of tendencies in the western, it becomes clear how he appealed to both white and black audiences during a period of poverty, unemployment, and segregation. …”
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Transformations of the American hero in the US media discourse by Svitlana Lyubymova

“…Abstract In the era of digital technologies, media has become a powerful tool of shaping worldview of people by means of sociocultural stereotypes. …”
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The Wandering Character in the Coen Brothers’ Films: When the Southern Gothic Meets the Western by Julie Assouly

“…If the image of the lonesome cowboy traditionally haunts classical Westerns, the bounty hunter chasing outlaws remains a key character of the spaghetti Western, and revisionist Westerns in general. …”
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