COWBOYS AND CORNFIELDS: (UN)MAKING THE AMERICAN WEST IN FILM, T.V., AND LITERATURE

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

FWIS 109 examines film, television, novels and short stories in order to consider the American West from a variety of different perspectives and identities. In each case, we examine how alternate Western narratives intersect with, or refute, the dominant tropes and mythologies of this most contested of cultural spaces.