| Description |
1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Virgins, Widows, and Whores : The Bride Pool of John Wayne's Westerns / Helen M. Lewis -- Just a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck / A.P. Nelson -- Violence, Vixens and Virgins : Noir-like Women in the Stewart/Mann Westerns / Debra B. Cutshaw -- From Whore to hero : reassessing Jill in our "Once Upon a Time in the West" / Andrea Gazzaniga -- 'Wild' Women : Interracial Romance on the Western Frontier / Cynthia J. Miller -- Paladin Plays the Field : 1950s television, masculinity, and the new episodic sexualization of the private sphere / Erin Lee Mock -- Reverse Transvestism and the Classic Hero : "The Ballad of Little Jo" and the Archetypal Western (fe)male / Vincent Piturro -- The melancholy couple in "Winchester '73" / Peter Falconer -- Outlaws, Buddies, and Lovers : The Sexual Politics of "Calamity Jane" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" / France Pheasant-Kelly -- Horse Power : Equine Alliances in the Western / Stella M. Hockenhull -- A French Unsettlement of the Frontier : Love and the threatened American dream in "Heaven's Gate" (1980) / Lara Cox -- "Midnight Cowboy" : a love story / Zhenya Kiperman -- German Saddle Pals and the Absence of Love in the Karl-May Westerns / Robert Spindler -- 'When you side with a man, you stay with him!' : "Philia" in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" / Sue Matheson |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Western films -- History and criticism
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Love in motion pictures.
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Film: styles & genres -- USA.
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Television -- USA.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Performing Arts.
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Love in motion pictures
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Western films
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Matheson, Sue, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137272942 |
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1137272945 |
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1299262228 |
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9781299262225 |
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9781349445073 |
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134944507X |
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