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OverviewThis book works to complicate and push against common arguments that the Western from its inception is an anti-feminist genre. By focusing on representations of women professionals in Westerns, it shows that women in cinematic and televisual Westerns sometimes do acquire agency and empowerment in the private and public realms, despite our culture’s tendency to gender the former as feminine and the latter as solely masculine. The study reviews the relationship of these progressive Westerns to both explicit and latent feminist ideologies relevant to their times, as the films evolved from the 1930s to the twenty-first century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark E. WildermuthPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783319770000ISBN 10: 3319770004 Pages: 167 Publication Date: 26 April 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Is the Western an Inherently Anti-feminist Genre?.- 2. Women Professionals in 1930’s Film Westerns in the Context of the Progressive Age and the New Deal Gender Politics.- 3. Women and Westerns in the Films of the 1940s.- 4. Women and Western Films in the Cold War.- 5. After the Cold War: From the 1990’s Interregnum to 9/11.- 6. Women and Television Westerns, 1954–2001.- 7. Conclusion: Some Reflections on Women, Violence and Westerns.ReviewsAuthor InformationMark E. Wildermuth is Dunagan Professor of English at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA. His previous publications include Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema; Print, Chaos and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture; and Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958–Present. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |