Love in Western Film and Television [electronic resource] : Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails /
Matheson, S.editor.
This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Virgins, Widows, and Whores: The Bride Pool of the John Wayne Westerns; 2 Only a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck; 3 Violence, Vixens, and Virgins: Noir-like Women in the Stewart/Mann Westerns; 4 From Whore to Hero: Reassessing Jill in Once Upon a Time in the West; 5 "Wild" Women: Interracial Romance on the Western Frontier; 6 Paladin Plays the Field: 1950s Television, Masculinity, and the New Episodic Sexualization of the Private Sphere
7 Reverse Transvestism and the Classic Hero: The Ballad of Little Jo and the Archetypal Western (Fe)male8 The Melancholy Couple in Winchester '73; 9 Outlaws, Buddies, and Lovers: The Sexual Politics of Calamity Jane and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; 10 Horse Power: Equine Alliances in the Western; 11 A French Unsettlement of the Frontier: Love and the Threatened American Dream in Heaven's Gate (1980); 12 Midnight Cowboy: A Love Story; 13 German Saddle Pals and the Absence of Love in the Karl May Westerns
14 "When you side with a man, you stay with him!"-philia and the Military Mind in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre.
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