Hello-

My understanding was that hyphenation referred to the genre (via Philip French’s Westerns: Aspects of  Movie Genre) but that the single word ‘postwestern' referred to the critical orientation (via, among other studies, Susan Kollin’s Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space). French’s post- more literally connotes chronology. Kollin et al.’s also maybe ends up connoting a chronology but intends to link up to other critical cultural studies and also more of the Derridian play on “post-” (as in French play on ‘poste’ as postal). But I’m reading through some reception here and may also not have it exactly right.

Best wishes,

 
Eric Morel
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Department of English
University of Washington
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> On Nov 24, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Drucilla Wall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> As I see it, if the term refers to the movies or the book genre, then it is post-Western. The capital letter identifies it as specific to those forms and not a general term for the region or the civilization. Does that make sense?
> 
> Cheers,
> Drucilla
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> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:22:33 -0700
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> Subject: Re: post? west
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> or Post-Hollywood Westerns
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> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Tom Lynch <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> An editor's question: 
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> postwestern or 
> post-western, or
> post-Western?
> 
> And why?
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