Presented at Genre/Nostalgia 2021
January 5th – 6th 2021
Pawel Pyrka, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities & Stefan Rabitsch, University of Graz/University of Klagenfurt: ‘Because it’s one hell of a life’: Old/New West Nostalgia, the Romance of Ranching, and Elegiac Cowboys in Yellowstone.
Reece Goodall, Warwick University: ‘I was a lonesome cowboy’: The Western and nostalgia in the Toy Story series.
Isabella Macleod, King’s College London: ‘What chance has this country got?’: Using the generic conventions of the Western to expose the oxymoron of Australia as a settler-colonial power.