| Summary: | In the 1970s, with the Hollywood Western arguably dead (or at least commercially found wanting), one of the first video games to find success in American arcades was a Western, Midway's I Gun Fight i (1975), while one of the most successful and applauded video games of recent years is Rockstar's frontier-set I Red Dead Redemption i series. Faucette argues that the film trilogy forwarded a more progressive "model of masculinity" than typical to the time, or to the Western genre itself. The essays contained in this special issue of I Comparative American Studies i range across time and media, from outdoor recreation and magazines in the Gilded Age of the 1870s, to video games, film, and television in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, taking in theme parks and heritage sites along the way.
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