In the Wild West, matters of the heart always meant trouble: the kind of trouble that drove cowboys to drink, cowgirls to marry, and this collection of essays to be created. Timely and ground-breaking, Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails discloses surprising, and often disturbing, information about the complicated (and conflicted) emotional frontiers found in Western films released after the Second World War. Fourteen essays by authors from four countries offer new insights to those interested in the American character and the areas of culture, gender, film, and American studies.
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ISBN:9781137272935 (hbk.)
Physical Description:print x, 248 p. : 23 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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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. 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. 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.
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