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.

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On Nov 24, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Drucilla Wall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi everyone,

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

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:22:33 -0700
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or Post-Hollywood Westerns


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Tom Lynch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
An editor's question: 

postwestern or 
post-western, or
post-Western?

And why?

-Tom
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