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Love in Western Film and Television

Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Sue Matheson
    Pages 1-5

  3. Virgins, Widows, and Whores: The Bride Pool of the John Wayne Westerns

    • Helen M. Lewis
    Pages 7-17

  4. Only a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck

    • A. P. Nelson
    Pages 19-33

  5. Violence, Vixens, and Virgins: Noir-like Women in the Stewart/Mann Westerns

    • Debra B. Cutshaw
    Pages 35-51

  6. From Whore to Hero: Reassessing Jill in Once Upon a Time in the West

    • Andrea Gazzaniga
    Pages 53-69

  7. “Wild” Women: Interracial Romance on the Western Frontier

    • Cynthia J. Miller
    Pages 71-89

  8. Paladin Plays the Field: 1950s Television, Masculinity, and the New Episodic Sexualization of the Private Sphere

    • Erin Lee Mock
    Pages 91-109

  9. Reverse Transvestism and the Classic Hero: The Ballad of Little Jo and the Archetypal Western (Fe)male

    • Vincent Piturro
    Pages 111-124

  10. The Melancholy Couple in Winchester ’73

    • Peter Falconer
    Pages 125-139

  11. Outlaws, Buddies, and Lovers: The Sexual Politics of Calamity Jane and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    • Frances Pheasant-Kelly
    Pages 141-160

  12. Horse Power: Equine Alliances in the Western

    • Stella M. Hockenhull
    Pages 161-177

  13. A French Unsettlement of the Frontier: Love and the Threatened American Dream in Heaven’s Gate (1980)

    • Lara Cox
    Pages 179-196

  14. Midnight Cowboy: A Love Story

    • Zhenya Kiperman
    Pages 197-208

  15. German Saddle Pals and the Absence of Love in the Karl May Westerns

    • Robert Spindler
    Pages 209-224

  16. “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
    Pages 225-237

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 239-248
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About this book

This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre.

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"As the essays in this volume demonstrate, it is love that truly conquered the American frontier. The cinematic West draws its life from tales of passion and heartbreak, sacrifice and betrayal. Matheson is to be congratulated on crafting a volume that illustrates the complexities of cowboy love - a force that, much like the railroad, tamed the wilderness but left deep scars in its path. I highly recommend this collection as an excellent example of the 'film and history' method associated with the eponymous scholarly journal." - Peter C. Rollins, filmmaker and Emeritus Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University, USA

"Sue Matheson's Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails certainly ranks among the handful of most important studies of the Western genre. Well-written, superbly researched, insightful, and wonderfully entertaining, Matheson's impressive book explores a topic richly deserving (and woefully lacking) in the scholarly analysis of popular Westerns." - Gary Hoppenstand, editor, Journal of Popular Culture

About the authors

LARA COX University of Exeter, UK DEBRA B. CUTSHAW University of Nevada, USA PETER FALCONER University of Warwick, UK ANDREA GAZZANIGA Northern Kentucky University, USA STELLA HOCKENHULL University of Wolverhampton, UK ZHENYA KIPERMAN Drexel University, USA and an award-winning filmmaker HELEN LEWIS Tufts University, USA CYNTHIA J. MILLER Kansas Humanities Council Scholar, Will Rogers Memorial, and Emerson College, USA ERIN LEE MOCK Vassar College, USA FRANCES PHEASANT-KELLY University of Wolverhampton, UK VINCENT PITURRO University of Delaware, USA ROBERT SPINDLER University of Innsbruck, Austria

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