Situated Readings
Introduction to the Special Issue on Yellowstone
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https://doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/18007Keywords:
Yellowstone, 1883, Taylor Sheridan, branding, gender, race, space, place, television, WesternAbstract
As we write this, the 10 November 2024 release date of the highly anticipated second half of the fifth, and final, season of Taylor Sheridan’s epic neo-Western drama, Yellowstone, lies on the horizon. Within the space of eight years, Sheridan’s series, initially a niche standalone drama picked up by the Paramount Network, has expanded into a large, shared story universe. The contributions to this issue have coalesced around several focus areas which can loosely be categorised as: branding; gender and race; space and place; and situated readings of the series. This special issue of Journal of Literary Studies is, to our knowledge, the first focused publication to critically consider Yellowstone, and it successfully establishes a first critical discussion about the transcultural exchanges that can be found in popular cultural texts such as this that manage to go well beyond their intended boundaries.
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Horton, A. 2022. “Yellowstone: The Smash-Hit TV Show That Exposed a Cultural Divide.” The Guardian, January 12, 2022. Accessed October 8, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jan/12/yellowstone-the-smash-hit-tv-show-that-exposed-a-cultural-divide.
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