The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age

by Neil Campbell

Book Overview

Is the American West in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland's Generation X ? In Jim Jarmusch's movies? In Calexico's music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture? And what, precisely (or better yet, imprecisely) does it mean? Using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803215398
• ISBN13: 9780803215399
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"