In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.
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In 1992 Jane Tompkins in West Of Everything raised the disturbing question of why there had not been a focus on women in the Western genre when they were obviously such key characters. Thankfully, Women In The Western, with its eighteen articles, selected filmography and two selected bibliographies about film and television Westerns provides the first sustained, scholarly answer to that important question almost thirty years later. -- Professor Michael Marsden, St Norbert College
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-1-4744-4414-9 (9781474444149)
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Sue Matheson is Full Professor of English at the University College of the North in Manitoba, Canada. Her interests in film, culture, and literature may be found in more than sixty articles published in a wide range of books and scholarly journals. She is the editor of Love in Western Film and Television: Happy Hearts and Lonely Trails, A Fistful of Icons: Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American Western, Women in the Western and The Good, the Bad and the Ancient: Essays on the Greco-Roman Influence in Westerns. She is the author of The Westerns and War Films of John Ford and The John Ford Encyclopedia.
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Associate Professor of EnglishUniversity College of the North, Canada
Introduction, Sue Matheson
Roles on the Range
1. Silent but Rowdy: Stuntwomen of the Early Frontier
Cynthia J. Miller
2. Suffering Heroines on the Frontier-Melodrama and Pathos, 1914-39
Sue Matheson
3. When East Goes West: The Loss of Dramatic Agency in DeMille's Western Women from the 1910s to the 1930s
David Blanke
4. The Virginian and the Rose: Two Key Female Roles in Western Films and Comics
David Huxley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
5. Freud, "The Family on the Land," and the Feminine Turn in Post-war Westerns
Gaylyn Studlar
6. Clytemnestra and Electra under Western Skies
Martin M. Winkler
7. 'Never seen a woman who was more of a man': Saloon Girls, Women Heroes, and Female Masculinity in the Western
Christopher Minz
8. Gender Politics in the Revisionist Western: Interrogating the Perpetrator-Victim Binary in The Missing (Howard 2003)
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
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 Unforgiven (1960)
Kelly MacPhail
10. Western Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Native American Women in Wind River (2017)
Robert Spindler
11. Mostly Whores with a (Very) Few Angels: Asian Women in the Western
Vincent Piturro
12. "We been haunted a long time": Raped Women in Westerns
Maria Cecilia de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
13. "My body for a hand of poker": The Belle Starr Story?in Its Contexts
Erin Lee Mock
14. The Female Avenger in Post-9/11 Westerns
Martin Holtz
15. You've Got Something: Female Agency in Justified
Paul Zinder
16. Eastward the Women: Remapping Women's Journeys in Tommy Lee Jones's The Homesman?(2014)
J Paul Johnson
17. Women Gotta a Gun? Iconography and Female Representation in Godless
Stella Hockenhull
18. Wagon Mistress
Andrew Patrick Nelson
Filmography and Bibliographies
19. Women in the Western Filmography and Bibliography
Camille McCutcheon
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