{"id":15865,"date":"2011-08-26T02:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T02:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2011-08-26T02:10:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T02:10:24","slug":"the-film-you-didn%e2%80%99t-see-%e2%80%93-who%e2%80%99s-the-alien-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15865","title":{"rendered":"The Film You Didn\u2019t See \u2013 Who\u2019s the Alien, Cowboy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalweekly.com\/the-film-you-didnt-see-whos-the-alien-cowboy.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Film You Didn\u2019t See \u2013 Who\u2019s the Alien, Cowboy?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalweekly.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cultural Weekly<\/a><br \/>\n2011-08-25<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marciadawkins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Scholar<br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulliryder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ulli K. Ryder<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Scholar<br \/>\nCenter for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America<br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chances are you didn\u2019t see <em>Cowboys and Aliens<\/em>. The film won\u2019t get to $100 million box office in the US, and it is sinking fast overseas as well.\u00a0 There\u2019s even been collateral damage\u2014in the wake of its lackluster performance, Disney has put the brakes on the even-more-expensive <em>Lone Ranger<\/em>, to have starred Johnny Depp.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Cowboys and Aliens<\/em> didn\u2019t get audience traction because of mixed genres and mixed reviews, <strong>but the most intriguing aspect audiences and critics alike missed is the film\u2019s approach to mixed races and mixed species.<\/strong>\u00a0 The movie is an overt critique of colonialism and racism.\u00a0 Think we\u2019re reaching for subtext?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s about as obvious as a gigantic spaceship hovering over the Western sky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalweekly.com\/the-film-you-didnt-see-whos-the-alien-cowboy.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Film You Didn\u2019t See \u2013 Who\u2019s the Alien, Cowboy? Cultural Weekly 2011-08-25 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ulli K. Ryder, Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University Chances are you didn\u2019t see Cowboys and Aliens. The film won\u2019t get to $100 million box office in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,6,842],"tags":[7340,3083,2408,2406,3681,6543,3682],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-new-media","category-videos","tag-cultural-weekly","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins","tag-ulli-k-ryder","tag-ulli-kira-ryder","tag-ulli-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}