From True Grit to 'Big Damn Heroes': Cowboys, Pirates, and Relational Ethics

Autor:	Christopher N. Poulos
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Cultural Studies media_common.quotation_subject Social change Media studies Autoethnography Ambiguity Charge (warfare) Relational ethics Friendship Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Sociology Grit media_common Courage
Zdroj:	Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 21:163-170
ISSN:	1552-356X 1532-7086
DOI:	10.1177/1532708620968298
Popis:	When I was a kid, cowboys ruled. Every week, my heroes—Lucas McCain, the Cartwrights, Matt Dillon, Paladin, Big John Cannon—were taming the “wild west.” These were good guys, in charge and on a mission. But in the world around us, everything was changing. 1969 was a turning point. Everything was suddenly in Technicolor, and as we gave up on the West and turned to outer space for our hero-adventures, our heroes morphed from Cowboys to Space-Pirate-Cowboys. These space-pirate-cowboys (or big damn heroes) manage to do the right thing as they improvise their (opportunistic) ethics of friendship.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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