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Deconstructing American culture

From Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, Christopher Le Coney and Zoe Trodd (Harvard): John Wayne and the Queer Frontier: Deconstructions of the Classic Cowboy Narrative during the Vietnam War; and Jennifer Moskowitz (USD): The Cultural Myth of the Cowboy, or, How the West Was Won; Anil Narine (Simon Fraser): Policing Traumatized Boundaries of Self and Nation: Undocumented Labor in Blade Runner; an interview with Christopher J. Wright, author of Tribal Warfare: Survivor and the Political Unconscious of Reality Television; an interview with Joseph Natoli, author of This Is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post-9/11 America; and an interview with Douglas R. Anderson, author of Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture.