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Format: 1 online resource (360 p.) : , 16 B/W illustrations

ISBN: 9781474444156

Content: Explores the changing roles of women to the Western and offers new approaches to what has been a male-centred genrePioneers new avenues for research on the Western and includes a bibliography of the extant criticism on women and Western to encourage further scholarshipCharts significant shifts in Hollywood’s transmission of American gender values and expectationsExamines the common Western tropes of women homesteaders, soiled doves, masculinised and erotically dangerous women and female characters bent on revengeTraditional and intertextual representations of women in the Western are consideredAs the Western matured, women’s roles became more complex and modern – transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. In Women in the Western, a range of international scholars explores the changing roles of women in the genre through case studies of classic films like Broken Arrow (1950) and The Searchers (1956), and contemporary films and TV series like Wind River (2017) and Justified (2010–15). Considering traditional and intertextual representations of women in the Western, the book charts the significant shifts in Hollywood’s transmission of gender values and expectations.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , FIGURES -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , PART ONE. ROLES ON THE RANGE -- , 1. SILENT BUT ROWDY: STUNTWOMEN OF THE EARLY FRONTIER -- , 2. SUFFERING HEROINES ON THE FRONTIER—MELODRAMA AND PATHOS, 1914–39 -- , 3. WHEN EAST GOES WEST: THE LOSS OF DRAMATIC AGENCY IN DEMILLE’S WESTERN WOMEN FROM THE 1910s TO THE 1930s -- , 4. THE VIRGINIAN AND THE ROSE: TWO KEY FEMALE ROLES IN WESTERN FILMS AND COMICS -- , 5. FREUD, “THE FAMILY ON THE LAND,” AND THE FEMININE TURN IN POST-WAR WESTERNS -- , 6. CLYTEMNESTRA AND ELECTRA UNDER WESTERN SKIES -- , 7. “NEVER SEEN A WOMAN WHO WAS MORE OF A MAN”: SALOON GIRLS, WOMEN HEROES, AND FEMALE MASCULINITY IN THE WESTERN -- , 8. GENDER POLITICS IN THE REVISIONIST WESTERN: INTERROGATING THE PERPETRATOR–VICTIM BINARY IN THE MISSING (HOWARD 2003) -- , PART TWO. WOMEN’S ISSUES IN POST-WAR, REVISIONIST, AND FEMINIST WESTERNS -- , 9. TRADING PLACES—TRADING RACES: THE CROSS-CULTURAL ASSIMILATION OF WOMEN IN THE SEARCHERS (1956) AND THE UNFORGIVEN (1960) -- , 10. WESTERN NOSTALGIA, REVISIONISM, AND NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN IN WIND RIVER (2017) -- , 11. MOSTLY WHORES WITH A (VERY) FEW ANGELS: ASIAN WOMEN IN THE WESTERN -- , 12. “WE BEEN HAUNTED A LONG TIME”—RAPED WOMEN IN WESTERNS -- , 13. “MY BODY FOR A HAND OF POKER”: THE BELLE STARR STORY IN ITS CONTEXTS -- , 14. THE FEMALE AVENGER IN POST-9/11 WESTERNS -- , 15. YOU’VE GOT SOMETHING: FEMALE AGENCY IN JUSTIFIED -- , 16. EASTWARD THE WOMEN: REMAPPING WOMEN’S JOURNEYS IN TOMMY LEE JONES’S THE HOMESMAN (2014) -- , 17. WOMEN GOTTA GUN? ICONOGRAPHY AND FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN GODLESS -- , 18. WAGON MISTRESS -- , PART THREE. FILMOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- , 19. WOMEN IN THE WESTERN FILMOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , CONTRIBUTORS -- , INDEX , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474444156

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474444156