Feminism and the Western in Film and Television

• Main Author: Wildermuth, Mark E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Film genres.; Culture.; Gender.; Motion pictures-United States.; Popular Culture.; Motion pictures.; Genre.; Culture and Gender.; American Cinema and TV.; Popular Culture .; Close Reading.

This 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 th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. 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.