Women in the Western / edited by Sue Matheson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matheson, Sue, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Western films--History and criticism.

Western films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Explores the changing roles of women to the Western and offers new approaches to what has been a male-centred genre.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4744-4416-4

OCLC:

1178647666