European Journal of American Culture 42.2-3 is out now! Special Issue
Intellect is pleased to announce that European Journal of American Culture 42.2-3 is out now!
Special Issue: ‘Lonely Are the Brave’
The Special Issue, edited by Helena Bacon and Mark Jancovich, emerged out of a conference at the University of East Anglia and thinks about the Western genre in a variety of cultural texts.
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/european-journal-of-american-culture
Aims & Scope
The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, refereed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of America. EJAC is particularly interested in articles considering the ways in which politics, history, literature, the visual arts and other areas of the humanities have increasingly engaged with cultural issues.
This title is indexed with Scopus.
Issue 42.2-3
JOHN WILLS, CHRISTOPHER LLOYD AND HARRIET STILLEY
Editorial
Special Issue: ‘Lonely Are the Brave’
HELENA BACON AND MARK JANCOVICH
Articles
Modernity and the Pony Express Western
CHRISTINA CORFIELD
Sisyphus on horseback: Landscape allegory in the postwar Western
DAVID MELBYE
‘What did we prove?’: William Wyler’s The Big Country (1958) and the revisionism of Westerns
ANDREW KINSELLA
Sissies and lost pardners: Issues of masculinity and male queerness in the early Western
SHANE BROWN
Logan (2017) and the lost object of masculinity, or the trouble with Shane
JON MITCHELL
Between reverence and rejection: Age and youth in the Vietnam era Western
MARTIN HOLTZ
Mechanisms of time in video game Westerns from Gun Fight to Red Dead Redemption 2
JOHN WILLS
Between banjos, beaches and bending gender: Negotiating the queer rural space in Hannah Montana
ILIAS BEN MNA
VERONIKA KELLER
Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret and the politics of grievability: 9/11, allegory, mourning
KARIM TOWNSEND
Book Reviews
Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago, Kemi Adeyemi (2022)
MARIETTA KOSMA
Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender, Marquis Bey (2022)
VENUS FULTZ
Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Joseph Plaster (2023)
JACK HODGSON
