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‘Maysville? That’s a white town’: “The Harder They Fall” and Blackness in the Western Landscape

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This article is part of the USSO special series Resilience/Renewal: Shifting Landscapes in American Studies The popularity of the Western as a genre solidified the frontier mythology as one of the building myths of the American nation and its cultural iconography. However, the Western carries sinister implications in its ‘good… Continue reading

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Video Games and American Studies: Weirding the Empire in West of Loathing and Other Digital Games

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Stepping beyond the game’s comical and surrealist façade affords a closer look at the ways West of Loathing de-mythologizes and parodies the US West in a subtle, pun-oriented sub-generic rendering of the Wild West, that is, the Weird West.    Continue reading