Space Westerns : From Cowboys to Cowboy Bebop

The Western faded in popularity around the same time that science fiction was really becoming mainstream. I think because they fill the same cultural niche. Between the taming of the frontier, the progress of technology, and the peculiar dynamic between America and Japan, westerns and science fiction seem almost inextricably linked.

I’ll do a dedicated Cowboy Bebop video in the future. There’s some details worth diving into.

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00:00 Intro
01:10 All Out of Frontier
02:35 Outland to Borderlands
04:00 More Than Nostalgia
04:55 Cowboys and Samurai
05:47 Cowboy Bebop
08:20 Composite Culture
09:28 A New Story