ANDREW PATRICK NELSON portrait
  • Chair, Film & Media Arts Department
  • Associate Professor, Film & Media Arts Department

Presentations

  • “Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral, Redux.” Co-presented with Matthew Carter. Lonely Are the Brave: The Western and Post-War America. University of East Anglia. Online. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/15/2021.
  • “‘It’s an Allegory for So Much of What’s Happening Right Now’: Theory as Praxis in Recent Westerns." Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Online. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/21/2021.
  • “‘It’s an Allegory for So Much of What’s Happening Right Now’: Theory as Praxis in Recent Westerns." Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Online. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/21/2021.
  • “Western Movies Today: History, Criticism, Production.” Perspectives on the American West Lecture Series. The Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands and Peoples of the North American West, Montana State University. Bozeman, MT. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/02/2019.
  • “Warhol's Western Movies.” 17th Annual Western Art History Symposium. Booth Western Art Museum. Cartersville, GA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/25/2019.
  • "Writing About Western Film." Western Writers of America James Ersfeld Memorial Symposium. CM Russell Museum. Great Falls, MT . Presentation, Presented, 09/28/2019.
  • “Into a New West: Junior Bonner.” The Briscoe Western Art Museum. San Antonio, TX. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/04/2019.
  • “Into a New West: Thelma and Louise.” The Briscoe Western Art Museum. San Antonio, TX. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/07/2019.
  • “Into a New West: Smoke Signals.” The Briscoe Western Art Museum. San Antonio, TX. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/09/2019.
  • “Into a New West: Lonely Are the Brave.” The Briscoe Western Art Museum. San Antonio, TX. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/26/2019.
  • “Delmer Daves and the Progressive Family Melodrama.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Toronto, ON. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/14/2019.
  • “‘A Charles Russell Motif’: Charles M. Russell and the Hollywood Western.” Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West. Scottsdale, AZ. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/21/2019.
  • "Western Film Histories: New Frontiers, At Home and Abroad." Keynote address. Transnationalism and Imperialism: New Perspectives on the Western. Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Montpellier, France. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/16/2018.
  • “Desert Hearts: The Sapphic West in the Shadow of the New Hollywood.” Women and New Hollywood. Maynooth University. Maynooth, Ireland. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/28/2018.

Publications

  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2021). Review of Latter-Day Screens: Genre, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism by Brenda R. Weber. (pp. 117-122). Vol. 8. Mormon Studies Review. Published, 10/2021.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2020). "Wagon Mistress." Women in the Western. Ed. Sue Matheson. Edinburgh University Press. Published, 07/01/2020.
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  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick. (2019). “Saluting Big Jake". (pp. 2). John Wayne Birthplace & Museum Bulletin. Published, 12/03/2019.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2019). "John Wayne." Warhol and the West. Eds. heather ahtone, Seth Hopkins and Faith Brower. (pp. 104-106). Tacoma Art Museum and University of California Press. Published, 08/27/2019.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2018). “True Grit: True triumph for Duke". (pp. 19, 39). Roundup Magazine XXXVI 2. Published, 12/04/2018.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2018). Review of Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart by Scott Eyman. True West Magazine. Published, 03/2018.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2018). “Faust at Famous Players.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to D.W. Griffith. Ed. Charlie Keil. Wiley-Blackwell. Published, 01/02/2018.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2017). “Eastwood’s Revenge,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds. Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal Museum of Fine Art. Published, 09/2017.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2017). “Keeping the Spirit Alive: Preservation and Specialization in the New Golden Age of the Western,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds. Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal Museum of Fine Art. Published, 09/2017.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2017). “John Wayne,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds. Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal Museum of Fine Art. Published, 09/2017.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick & Matthew Carter (2016). The Films of Delmer Daves. Edinburgh University Press. Published, 05/2016.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2015). Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980. University of Oklahoma Press. Published, 08/2015.
  • Nelson, Andrew Patrick (2013). Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990. Scarecrow Press. Published, 08/2013.