Love in Western Film and Television

1. Introduction
Sue Matheson

2. Virgins, Widows, and Whores: The Bride Pool of the John Wayne Westerns
Helen M. Lewis

3. Only a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck
A. P. Nelson

4. Violence, Vixens, and Virgins: Noir-like Women in the Stewart/Mann Westerns
Debra B. Cutshaw

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

Andrea Gazzaniga

6. “Wild” Women: Interracial Romance on the Western Frontier
Cynthia J. Miller

7. Paladin Plays the Field: 1950s Television, Masculinity, and the New Episodic Sexualization of the Private Sphere
Erin Lee Mock

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

9. The Melancholy Couple in Winchester ’73
Peter Falconer

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

Frances Pheasant-Kelly

11. Horse Power: Equine Alliances in the Western
Stella M. Hockenhull

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

13. Midnight Cowboy: A Love Story
Zhenya Kiperman

14. German Saddle Pals and the Absence of Love in the Karl May Westerns
Robert Spindler

15. “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

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Media Studies, Arts, Genre, Cultural Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies