Red Dead Redemption - (The Popular West) by John Wills & Esther Wright (Paperback)

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About the Book In its redeployment and reinvention of the Western's myth and memes, the Red Dead franchise speaks to broader aspects of American culture--the hold of the frontier myth and the "Wild West" over the popular imagination, the role of gun culture in society, depictions of gender and ethnicity in mass media, and the increasing allure of digital escapism--all of which come in for scrutiny here, making this volume a vital, sweeping, and deeply revealing cultural intervention. Book Synopsis While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning…