Title: Love in western film and television : lonely hearts and happy trails /
Authors: Matheson, Sue
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Western films History and criticism; Love in motion pictures.; PERFORMING ARTS Theater General.; Love in motion pictures; Western films; Film: styles & genres USA.; Television USA.; Performing Arts.
Abstract: This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking at cinematic masterpieces and cult classics, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated (and often conflicted) nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre.
Contents: 1. Virgins, Widows, and Whores: The Bride Pool of the John Wayne Westerns / Helen M. Lewis -- 2. Only a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck / A. P. Nelson -- 3. Violence, Vixens, and Virgins: Noir-like Women in the Stewart/Mann Westerns / Debra B. Cutshaw -- 4. From Whore to Hero: Reassessing Jill in Once Upon a Time in the West / Andrea Gazzaniga -- 5. "Wild" Women: Interracial Romance on the Western Frontier / Cynthia J. Miller -- 6. Paladin Plays the Field: 1950s Television, Masculinity, and the New Episodic Sexualization of the Private Sphere / Erin Lee Mock -- 7. Reverse Transvestism and the Classic Hero: The Ballad of Little Jo and the Archetypal Western (Fe)male / Vincent Piturro -- 8. The Melancholy Couple in Winchester '73 / Peter Falconer -- 9. Outlaws, Buddies, and Lovers: The Sexual Politics of Calamity Jane and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / Frances Pheasant-Kelly -- 10. Horse Power: Equine Alliances in the Western / Stella M. Hockenhull -- 11. A French Unsettlement of the Frontier: Love and the Threatened American Dream in Heaven's Gate (1980) / Lara Cox -- 12. Midnight Cowboy: A Love Story / Zhenya Kiperman -- 13. German Saddle Pals and the Absence of Love in the Karl May Westerns / Robert Spindler -- 14. "When you side with a man, you stay with him!" -- philia and the Military Mind in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) / Sue Matheson.