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.

Autorentext
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

Inhalt
Virgins, Widows, and Whores: The Bride Pool of John Wayne's Westerns; H.M.Lewis Just a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck; A.P.Nelson Violence, Vixens and Virgins: Noir-like Women in the Stewart/Mann Westerns; D.B.Cutshaw From Whore to Madonna: Female Subjectivity in Once Upon a Time in the West; A.Gazzaniga Reverse Transvestism and the Classic Hero: The Ballad of Little Jo and the Archetypal Western (fe)male; V.Piturro 'Wild' Women: Interracial Romance on the Western Frontier; C.J.Miller Paladin Plays the Field: Have Gun Will Travel and the Erotic Domestic of the 1950s; E.L.Mock The melancholy couple in Winchester '73; P.Falconer Outlaws, Buddies, and Lovers: The Sexual Politics of Calamity Jane and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; F.Pheasant-Kelly Horse Power: Equine Alliances in the Western; S.Hockenhull A French Unsettlement of the Frontier: Love and the threatened American dream in Heaven's Gate; L.Cox Saddle Pals Eurostyle and the Absence of Love in the Karl-May Westerns; R.Spindler 'When you side with a man, you stay with him!': The Importance of Philia in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch; S.Matheson