{"id":381,"date":"2017-08-02T13:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/?p=381"},"modified":"2017-08-21T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T09:41:33","slug":"sam-shepards-vision-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Like a desert junkyard at high noon&#8217;: Sam Shepard&#8217;s vision of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI hate endings,\u201d Sam Shepard declared to Carol Rosen in an <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/499518\/summary\">interview in 1991<\/a>. <!--more-->\u201cEndings are just a pain in the ass\u201d. Shepard\u2019s own ending, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-40799713\">his death<\/a> from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis \u2013 also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/07\/31\/sam-shepard-als-facts\/\">Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease<\/a> \u2013 at the age of 73, is especially hard to take, given his prodigious and ongoing effect upon American theatre, literature and film.<\/p>\n<p>The archive of work left by Shepard is extraordinary in its formal range and its creative experimentation. In addition to writing some 44 plays, numerous film screenplays and several collections of short fiction, he accrued almost 70 credits as a screen actor. The stage works themselves are multitudinous rather than singular in design, frequently having more in common with artistic collage or jazz improvisation than with the tradition of the well-made play \u2013 taking one example only, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatredatabase.com\/20th_century\/tongues.html\">Tongues, in 1978<\/a>, is subtitled: \u201cA piece for voice and percussion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>How to make sense of this vast, eclectic corpus? Here we may resemble Shelly, a character in Shepard\u2019s play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2016\/dec\/01\/buried-child-review-ed-harris-sam-shepard-trafalgar-studios-london\">Buried Child (1978)<\/a>, who struggles to sift all the information given her: \u201cI\u2019m just trying to put all this together.\u201d It is also important to reckon with US critic <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=7iQba4J0sCMC&amp;pg=PA75&amp;lpg=PA75&amp;dq=Richard+Gilman+sam+shepard+thematic+exegesis&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=rhE_4IrHMh&amp;sig=L7gd3DKb0AubyFCW7c8sREbY1dI&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj854SRpLjVAhVdGsAKHVM-D0wQ6AEIMzAC#v=onepage&amp;q=Richard%20Gilman%20sam%20shepard%20thematic%20exegesis&amp;f=false\">Richard Gilman\u2019s<\/a> claim that Shepard\u2019s work is \u201cextraordinarily resistant to thematic exegesis\u201d. Nevertheless, the plays, stories, screenplays and performances can be put together tactfully and assessed as a sustained meditation on American masculinity, the mythology of the American West and the destiny of the United States.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Marlboro Men?\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cNo man I\u2019ve ever met compares to Sam in terms of maleness,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/actor-playwright-sam-shepard-dead-\/3966620.html\">his long-term partner, Jessica Lange, famously said<\/a>. And Shepard\u2019s career often recycled imagery of the traditional American frontiersman: consider such screen roles as the heroic test pilot Chuck Yeager in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/great-movie-the-right-stuff-1983\">The Right Stuff (1983)<\/a> or the taciturn FBI agent in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?res=9E0CE3D9103AF930A35757C0A964958260\">Thunderheart (1992)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When I was UK pr for Paris Texas I helped set up the Annie Liebovitz shoot that yielded this iconic image of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SamShepard?src=hash\">#SamShepard<\/a>. Loved that man. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tDIVHP3hs4\">pic.twitter.com\/tDIVHP3hs4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Angie Errigo (@amerrigoround) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amerrigoround\/status\/892130459647434757\">July 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Or recall Annie Leibowitz\u2019s 1984 photograph in which, fully equipped with cowboy paraphernalia of Stetson, denims, chaps and lasso, Shepard looks down upon the humbled spectator.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard\u2019s writing, however, engages in complex fashion with the condition of American masculinity. Interviewed by The New York Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/01\/29\/theater\/myths-dreams-realities-sam-shepard-s-america.html?pagewanted=all\">he observed<\/a> that in the wake of the closing of the frontier, \u201cthe American male is on a very bad trip\u201d. His plays and film scripts are most absorbed by these damaged or depleted patriarchs. And it is a moot point whether the decay of pioneer masculinity \u2013 evidenced, for instance, by Eddie\u2019s \u201cpeculiar broken-down quality\u201d in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1983\/05\/27\/theater\/stage-fool-for-love-sam-shepard-western.html\">Fool for Love (1983)<\/a> \u2013 is cause for celebration or occasion for lament.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Nevertheless, Shepard\u2019s self-consciousness is such that traditional US masculinity is often scrutinised \u2013 even satirised \u2013 in his drama. Frontier ruggedness appears risible and parodic when shown still circulating in an America of suburbia, television and plastic; there is something ridiculous about Ellis\u2019s declaration in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2011\/aug\/31\/curse-starving-class-review\">Curse of the Starving Class (1976)<\/a> that: \u201cI\u2019m a steak man. \u2018Meat and blood\u2019, that\u2019s my motto.\u201d If women are sometimes impoverished presences in Shepard\u2019s writing, they still have moments in which they pierce through such masculine nostalgia. As May demands in Fool for Love, on hearing Eddie\u2019s proposal that they decamp to Wyoming: \u201cWhat\u2019s up there? Marlboro Men?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Afloat on a \u2018sea of junk\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Not for nothing was Shepard\u2019s first stage play, written in 1964, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sam-shepard.com\/cowboys.html\">Cowboys<\/a>. The figure of the cowboy recurs across his work, but like Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992) or Richard Avedon in the photographs comprising <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansuburbx.com\/2011\/01\/richard-avedon-richard-avedons-in.html\">In the American West (1985)<\/a>, Shepard submits it to interrogation rather than simple celebration. Lee in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sam-shepard.com\/truewest.html\">True West (1980)<\/a>, for example, lives like a cowboy in the desert not as existential choice but as a consequence of social failure.<\/p>\n<p>For Austin, Lee\u2019s brother, the region they inhabit can no longer play its traditional role as source of American redemption: the West is \u201ca dead issue! It\u2019s dried up\u201d. In much of his writing, Shepard reflects in moods ranging from elegiac to sardonic upon the West\u2019s exhaustion. Typical would be his screenplay for Wim Wenders\u2019s film, Paris, Texas (1984): if the desert with its promise persists here, it is increasingly hemmed in by Houston\u2019s soulless spaces that range in opulence from skyscrapers to peepshow booths.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Junk in Shepard\u2019s work is cultural as much as it is material. For every rusting car or mouldering avocado, there is a decaying image or narrative. Time and again, his characters have as imaginative resources only sedimented clich\u00e9s and pre-existing scripts, whether derived from formula westerns (True West) or Gothic potboilers (Buried Child). Cultural detritus is layered so thickly as to make improbable any arrival at what a character in Buried Child sardonically calls \u201cbedrock\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/counter.theconversation.edu.au\/content\/81911\/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>But if Shepard\u2019s version of America tends towards the pessimistic, several counter-impulses suggest his attachment still to utopia. One reason for cautious optimism lies in the very openness of those endings with which he struggled as a writer. Travis\u2019s destination as he drives away from Houston at the end of Paris, Texas is unscripted and unmapped \u2013 termination is, if only for a while, deferred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/andrew-dix-279039\">Andrew Dix<\/a>, Lecturer in American Studies, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/loughborough-university-1336\">Loughborough University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\">The Conversation<\/a>. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/like-a-desert-junkyard-at-high-noon-sam-shepards-vision-of-america-81911\">original article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI hate endings,\u201d Sam Shepard declared to Carol Rosen in an interview in 1991.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication-culture-citizenship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Like a desert junkyard at high noon&#039;: Sam Shepard&#039;s vision of America - Loughborough Research Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The archive of work left by Shepard is extraordinary in its formal range and its creative experimentation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Like a desert junkyard at high noon&#039;: Sam Shepard&#039;s vision of America - Loughborough Research Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The archive of work left by Shepard is extraordinary in its formal range and its creative experimentation.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Loughborough Research Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lborouniversity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-02T12:51:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-08-21T09:41:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/08\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"926\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"724\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Loughborough University\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/lborouniversity\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Loughborough University\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Loughborough University\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bf925b2ed5b28d8cd362074aceff52c2\"},\"headline\":\"&#8216;Like a desert junkyard at high noon&#8217;: Sam Shepard&#8217;s vision of America\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-02T12:51:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-08-21T09:41:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":879,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/30\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Communication, Culture and Citizenship\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/\",\"name\":\"'Like a desert junkyard at high noon': Sam Shepard's vision of America - Loughborough Research Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/30\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-02T12:51:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-08-21T09:41:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bf925b2ed5b28d8cd362074aceff52c2\"},\"description\":\"The archive of work left by Shepard is extraordinary in its formal range and its creative experimentation.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/30\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/30\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg\",\"width\":926,\"height\":724},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/communication-culture-citizenship\\\/sam-shepards-vision-america\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"&#8216;Like a desert junkyard at high noon&#8217;: Sam Shepard&#8217;s vision of America\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/\",\"name\":\"Loughborough Research Blog\",\"description\":\"The best of Loughborough University research\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bf925b2ed5b28d8cd362074aceff52c2\",\"name\":\"Loughborough University\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5fedea9a44f2900edcc6bb7db078b077daa3b81e34b691eb20c5611c76966edb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5fedea9a44f2900edcc6bb7db078b077daa3b81e34b691eb20c5611c76966edb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5fedea9a44f2900edcc6bb7db078b077daa3b81e34b691eb20c5611c76966edb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Loughborough University\"},\"description\":\"Our outstanding research environment generates globally important work in partnership with business, public and voluntary organisations.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/lborouniversity\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/lborouniversity\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/lborouniversity\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\\\/research\\\/author\\\/adjc3lboro-ac-uk\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"'Like a desert junkyard at high noon': Sam Shepard's vision of America - Loughborough Research Blog","description":"The archive of work left by Shepard is extraordinary in its formal range and its creative experimentation.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"'Like a desert junkyard at high noon': Sam Shepard's vision of America - Loughborough Research Blog","og_description":"The archive of work left by Shepard is extraordinary in its formal range and its creative experimentation.","og_url":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/","og_site_name":"Loughborough Research Blog","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lborouniversity","article_published_time":"2017-08-02T12:51:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-08-21T09:41:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":926,"height":724,"url":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/08\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Loughborough University","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/lborouniversity","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Loughborough University","Estimated reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/"},"author":{"name":"Loughborough University","@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/#\/schema\/person\/bf925b2ed5b28d8cd362074aceff52c2"},"headline":"&#8216;Like a desert junkyard at high noon&#8217;: Sam Shepard&#8217;s vision of America","datePublished":"2017-08-02T12:51:48+00:00","dateModified":"2017-08-21T09:41:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/"},"wordCount":879,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/08\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg","articleSection":["Communication, Culture and Citizenship"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/","name":"'Like a desert junkyard at high noon': Sam Shepard's vision of America - Loughborough Research Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/08\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg","datePublished":"2017-08-02T12:51:48+00:00","dateModified":"2017-08-21T09:41:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/#\/schema\/person\/bf925b2ed5b28d8cd362074aceff52c2"},"description":"The archive of work left by Shepard is extraordinary in its formal range and its creative experimentation.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/08\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/08\/file-20170802-29516-v7jjro.jpg","width":926,"height":724},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/communication-culture-citizenship\/sam-shepards-vision-america\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"&#8216;Like a desert junkyard at high noon&#8217;: Sam Shepard&#8217;s vision of America"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/","name":"Loughborough Research Blog","description":"The best of Loughborough University research","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/#\/schema\/person\/bf925b2ed5b28d8cd362074aceff52c2","name":"Loughborough University","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5fedea9a44f2900edcc6bb7db078b077daa3b81e34b691eb20c5611c76966edb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5fedea9a44f2900edcc6bb7db078b077daa3b81e34b691eb20c5611c76966edb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5fedea9a44f2900edcc6bb7db078b077daa3b81e34b691eb20c5611c76966edb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Loughborough University"},"description":"Our outstanding research environment generates globally important work in partnership with business, public and voluntary organisations.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lborouniversity","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lborouniversity\/","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/lborouniversity"],"url":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/author\/adjc3lboro-ac-uk\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}