 | Paul BISHOP The Six-Gun Justice Casebook. Exploring the Western Genre in Television, Film, Fiction and beyond © by Paul Bishop 2026 (555 pp.) - ISBN: 979-8.9953571-6-2 lieferbar über Amazon |  |
The West we watched, read about, and remember was created in the imagination of storytellers who lived by one rule—never let the truth get in the way of a good story. The Six-Gun Justice Casebook celebrates those stories, the ones embedded so deep in our cultural DNA they never stop resonating.
Drawn from 250 episodes of the award-winning Six-Gun Justice Podcast, these essays represent an eclectic blend of frontier storytelling driven by curiosity, enthusiasm, and whatever version of the West demanded attention. The result covers more ground than any standard Western survey. Television classics and forgotten curiosities. Landmark films and international outliers. Paperback originals and spinner rack series. Pulp writers, radio dramas, collectibles, and the strange hybrid forms the genre conceived when nobody was paying close attention.
Six sections organize the journey. Part One rides through the television Westerns that defined a generation—Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, and dozens more. Part Two explores the novels and paperback originals that kept the frontier alive between broadcasts—from Louis L'Amour and Elmore Leonard to the Fargo and Sundance series. Part Three covers the films, from Stagecoach to Tombstone, The Wild Bunch to True Grit. Part Four profiles the writers who built the genre's bones—their voices, their craft, and their lasting influence. Part Five follows the Western beyond American borders into the international forms England, Germany, Australia, Italy, Scandinavia, and others made their own. Part Six rides the strange outer trails—gimmick guns, mechanical horses, Western comics, radio dramas, collectibles, and the curious corners most books never bother to find.
If you grew up fighting with your brothers about who would win a fair fight between Paladin and the Rifleman, or if you're riding into the genre for the first time, there are plenty of trails here to follow.
The stories change—The code never does—Saddle up. (Werbetext)
Auf jeden Fall eine lesenswerte Neuerscheinung, wenn auch kein Grundlagenwerk zum Western. Die einzelnen - eher kurzen - Essays bieten aber recht viel an Information und in ihrer Gesamtheit einen kompetent geschriebenen und durchaus kurzweiligen Überblick. Ein Wermutstropfen sind die leider fehlenden Illustrationen. Ich habe mir die Paperback-Ausgabe besorgt, die ich als gelungen empfinde. Hier hat man ein ordentliches Buch in der Hand und keine billige (eigentlich nur geliehene) EBook-Datei. - Fazit: Empfehlenswert, für jeden der etwas über den Western in seinen unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen erfahren möchte.
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