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‘What did we prove?’: William Wyler’s The Big Country (1958) and the revisionism of Westerns “我们证明了什么?”:威廉·惠勒的《大国》(1958)和西部片的修正主义
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00101_1
Andrew Kinsella
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Sissies and lost pardners: Issues of masculinity and male queerness in the early Western 娘娘腔和失去的伴侣:早期西部的男子气概和男性酷儿问题
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00102_1
Shane Brown
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Mechanisms of time in video game Westerns from Gun Fight to Red Dead Redemption 2 从《枪战》到《荒野大镖客:救赎2》的西部电子游戏中的时间机制
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00105_1
John Wills
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Logan (2017) and the lost object of masculinity, or the trouble with Shane 洛根(2017)和失去的男子气概的对象，或麻烦与谢恩
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00103_1
Jon Mitchell
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Between reverence and rejection: Age and youth in the Vietnam era Western 在敬畏与拒绝之间:越南时代的年龄与青春
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00104_1
Martin Holtz
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Between banjos, beaches and bending gender: Negotiating the queer rural space in Hannah Montana 在班卓琴、海滩和弯曲的性别之间:《汉娜·蒙塔娜》中的乡村酷儿空间谈判
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00093_1
Ilias Ben Mna
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Editors’ Introduction 编辑的介绍
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00097_2
John Wills, Christopher Lloyd, Harriet Stilley
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Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender, Marquis Bey (2022) 《系统失灵:黑人与顺性别随笔》，马奎斯·贝(2022)
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00092_5
Venus Fultz
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Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret and the politics of grievability: 9/11, allegory, mourning 肯尼斯·洛纳根的《玛格丽特与悲情政治:9/11，寓言，哀悼》
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00096_1
Karim Townsend
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Special Issue: ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ 特刊:《孤独是勇敢》
European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00098_2
Helena Bacon, Mark Jancovich
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