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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"cowboys"”.
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Sunset Warriors: Cowboys, Samurai, and the Crisis of Masculinity
… an acute expression in the interactions between cowboys and samurai on screen after World War II. I focus on cinematic cowboys and samurai in particular because of the unique position both archetypes hold in the history of the bilateral exchange between the U.S. and Japan, and also because of …
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Tarmac cowboys : an ethnographic study of the cultural world of boy racers
Through my varying degrees of engagement with the street car culture which existed around the area where I lived in Cornwall, I had become aware of the extent to which cars played an important role and represented the norm of daily discourse, entered into by others, and particularly young men. Yet …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
In the early part of the twentieth century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
In the early part of the twentieth century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the …
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Spinsters, cowboys, and cosmopolites: Short story representations of America in late-Victorian periodicals
"This dissertation examines how short story representations of America published in English periodicals between 1880 and 1900 shaped perceptions of America and American literature. As arbiters of the discursive field provided by Victorian periodicals, English magazine editors and reviewers …
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Cowboys, Postmodern Heroes, and Anti-heroes: The Many Faces of the Alterized White Man
This thesis investigates how hegemonic white masculinity adopts a new mode of material accumulation by entering into an ambivalent existence as a historical agent and metahistory at the same time and continues to function as a performative identity that offers a point of identification for the …
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Urban cowboys: an examination of gaúcho identity formation in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
This piece investigates the historical, economic, and social development of South America’s cowboy, the gaúcho. Situated in southern Brazil, it tracks the emergence of a particular rural way of life and the subsequent conservative social movement established to safeguard the identity it created. It …
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"Black Cowboys: Self-Sufficiency in the American West through the ideology of Booker T. Washington"
… but what is missing is the voice of the black cowboys. Using the views and ideologies of Booker T. Washington, black cowboys were able to become self-sufficient men. This thesis will present a comparison and contrast between the historiography and autobiographies of black cowboys. Furthermore, …
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Cowboy: An Agile Programming Methodology for a Solo Programmer
… of a programmer working alone. These so-called cowboys are disdained for not working in teams to build software. In reality many cowboys work by themselves due to the circumstances of their work environment, not because they are unable or unwilling to work with well with others. These solo …
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Ranching in Northeastern New Mexico
… monographs published on ranches, ranchers, and cowboys. Colfax and Union counties have an extensive number of ranches. These ranches are from as small as ten acres to as large as 590,000 acres. These ranches in their own right deserve to be studied, especially since they were a part of at least …
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Middle Men: Establishing Non-Anglo Masculinity in Southwestern Literature
… southwest. Long gone are the days when the cowboys chased down the savage Indians or the Mexican bandits. Southwestern literature now focuses on how these different cultures and traditions can re-construct their masculinities in a way that will be beneficial to all. The southwest is a land …
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Chroma Cowboy
… this body of work to give the hard-working cowboys, ranchers, and agribusinesses a way to have their stories told to a larger audience. The strain on ranches due to generational changes, politics and environmental circumstances makes it even more important to document this way of life. I …
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Marketplace Multiculturalism
Picture Texas. No longer simply cowboys, footballs, and firearms, this land today is sustained by a daily choreography of cross-border commerce, managed by entertainment media turned handheld surveillance, and peppered with enclaves of immigrants from the world over. A contact zone where logistical …
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"STILL DREAMING OF PARADISE": RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ' S OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC , AND POSTWAR AMERICA
… as Western films and recordings of the singing cowboys, popular images of the Pacific Islands, travel literature and advertisements, anthropological and sociological tracts on race and ethnicity, the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, and foreign policy publications are used to demonstrate …
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Science, animals, and profit-making in the American rodeo arena
The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) has grown in scope and popularity since the mid-1970s, cultivating large rodeo audiences with spectacles of human and animal athleticism, speed, and skill. While the sport is popularly understood as an outgrowth of “traditional” western culture and …
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Leaving Cheyenne: A Study of the Evolution of the Cowboy in Larry McMurtry's Writings
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Doublevision
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Doublevision
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The perceived involvement with and usage of western wear by male consumers
Involvement theory (Laurent & Kapferer, 1985) predicts level of product involvement influences consumers' information searches and decision processes. Fashion involvement is a predictor of fashion buying behavior and attitudes. Today, western wear has moved from earlier functions of utility, …
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The place of the cowboy novel in American literature : a study of its development from 1900 to 1940
Therefore, it is the main purpose of this thesis to arrive at some conclusions in regard to one aspect of cowboy fiction - the cowboy novel. In the main, this study will attempt to place the cowboy novel in its proper position in American literature, While doing this, it will try to show that there …