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Hell-bent for leather : sex and sexuality in the weird western / edited by Kerry Fine [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Postwestern horizons.
- Postwestern Horizons Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western stories--History and criticism.
- Western stories.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Television programs--United States--History.
- Television programs.
- Sex in literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Sex in motion pictures.
- Gender identity in motion pictures.
- Sex on television.
- Gender identity on television.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- This edited collection explores the role of sex and sexuality in the genre known as the weird western--a popular hybrid form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, or conventions with elements drawn from horror, fantasy, supernatural, or science fiction genres.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
- The daddy with no name: the kinky cowboy aesthetics of The Mandalorian / Jennessa Hester
- Beyond the virtual frontier: new possibilities of sex and desire in Black Mirror's "San Junipero" / Katie Googe
- Recreations and inescapable repetitions: Sontag's 'Pornographic imagination,' Bacigalupis' The water knife, and the weird western / Micah Donohue
- Lost Max: Mad Max and the challenge to masculine dominance in 1970s Australia / Scott Pearce
- "Touch your wound, dear": Eye killers and the vampire of Manifest Destiny / Miriam Brown Spiers
- Qweirding the West: re-forming the nation in the novels of C Pam Zhang and Emma Pérez / Anne Mai Yee Jansen
- Ishmael Reed takes on the weird western in Yellow Back Radio Broke-Dow / Jana Koehler
- Coming back to Shane to redeem the cyborg in Soldier and Logan / Elizabeth Abele
- Leatherface families and final grandmas: the reproductive rites and slaughterhouse sexualities in the new "Old West" / Joshua T. Anderson and Rebecca M. Lush
- "What makes you worth $100,000?": heists, the commodification of women, and capitalism condemned in The professionals and Army of the dead / Meredith Harvey
- The woman in room 327: Western domesticity and oedipal conflict in The shining / Jeffrey Chisum
- Transgression on the frontier: the ludicity of incest in Bioshock infinite / Christina Fawcett and Marc Ouellette
- Dead fathers and monstrous daughters in The last of us II / Sara Humphreys
- "Do I bring my own leash, or do I pick one up at the door?": kink, camp, and queer masculinity in CBS's The wild wild West / Sara L. Spurgeon.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496241948
- 1496241940
- 9781496241955
- 1496241959
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