What is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination
by Josh Garrett-Davis
What Is a Western? Outstanding Book Award Lecture
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Autry Curator Josh Garrett-Davis accepts the “Outstanding Book Award” for his book What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination, from the Center for the Study of the American West (CSAW) at West Texas A&M University. He speaks about various topics in the book—Joan Didion, sci-fi Westerns, and heavy metal among them—as well as his multi-sided view of Westerns.
This interview is part of a series exploring the significance of the Western genre and the ways in which the pop culture shapes our understanding of the American West. If you’re interested in seeing past interviews.
2020 CSAW Book Award Winner Virtual Reception and Lecture: What is a Western?
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To Read
Josh Garrett-Davis, What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019)
M12 Studio, The Center Pivot Library (Last Chance Press and Jap Sam Books, 2018)
Frank Reade Jr. and His New Steam Man; or, the Young Inventor’s Trip to the Far West (1892)
To Watch and Listen
Gene Autry in The Phantom Empire on Shout TV
The Frisco Kid (1979)
The Highwaymen, “American Remains” and “Silver Stallion”