Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Virgins, Widows, and Whores: The Bride Pool of the John Wayne Westerns....Pages 7-17
Only a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck....Pages 19-33
Violence, Vixens, and Virgins: Noir-like Women in the Stewart/Mann Westerns....Pages 35-51
From Whore to Hero: Reassessing Jill in Once Upon a Time in the West ....Pages 53-69
“Wild” Women: Interracial Romance on the Western Frontier....Pages 71-89
Paladin Plays the Field: 1950s Television, Masculinity, and the New Episodic Sexualization of the Private Sphere....Pages 91-109
Reverse Transvestism and the Classic Hero: The Ballad of Little Jo and the Archetypal Western (Fe)male....Pages 111-124
The Melancholy Couple in Winchester ’73....Pages 125-139
Outlaws, Buddies, and Lovers: The Sexual Politics of Calamity Jane and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ....Pages 141-160
Horse Power: Equine Alliances in the Western....Pages 161-177
A French Unsettlement of the Frontier: Love and the Threatened American Dream in Heaven’s Gate (1980)....Pages 179-196
Midnight Cowboy: A Love Story....Pages 197-208
German Saddle Pals and the Absence of Love in the Karl May Westerns....Pages 209-224
“When you side with a man, you stay with him!”—philia and the Military Mind in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969)....Pages 225-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-248