In this section, you will find Master's theses and PhD dissertations written about various aspects of the Western.
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New Deal Cowboy
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Constructing a Heroic Identity
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Rewriting Myth
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Cowboys and Shoguns
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Transmedia Brand Licensing
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Michael Dean Duchemin. "New Deal Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy." PhD Dissertation, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 2012.
More about Gene Autry. |
Brad D. Foster. "Constructing a Heroic Identity: Masculinity and the Western Film." Master's Thesis, Oregon State University, July 16, 2007.
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Nicholas Jelley. "The Potential for Rewriting Myth: Finding 'Kindness' on the Frontier." Master's Thesis, University of Florida, 2005.
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Kyle Keough. "Cowboys and Shoguns: The American Western, Japanese Jidaigeki, and Cross-Cultural Exchange." Senior Honors Project, University of Rhode Island, 2008.
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Avi Dan Santo. "Transmedia Brand Licensing Prior to Conglomeration: George Trendle and the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet Brands, 1933-1966." PhD Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2006.
Abstract from the University of Texas at Austin Libraries: In this dissertation, I argue for the need to examine the emergence of licensing and branding practices prior to media conglomeration. Through an in depth exploration of George Trendle’s licensing arrangements for the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet brands’, I trace how contemporary licensing practices took root while also arguing for the need to analyze licensors as cultural intermediaries with particular occupational identities, attitudes and values that shape their daily business practices. This project uses historical records archived at the Detroit Public Library and the American Heritage Center in Laramie Wyoming to re-write the history of trans-media relations between the years 1933-1966 through the lens of one of the most successful independent licensors of his era. Trendle not only shaped future licensing practices, but the degree of independent managerial authority he exercised over his brands also exceeded the norms of most intermediaries, leading to his eventual marginalization within the emerging media conglomerates of the late 1960s. More about The Lone Ranger. More about The Green Hornet. |
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Hey MIS-ter DILL-on
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Labor Radicalism
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Miles Hood Swarthout. "Hey, MIS-ter DILL-on! Researching and Writing an Original Script for Gunsmoke, America's Most Successful Dramatic Television Series." Master's Thesis, University of Southern California, September 1973.
More about Gunsmoke. |
David A. Varel. "Defusing Labor Radicalism: The Dime Novel Outlaw and Modernity, 1877-83." centerwest.org.
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