Feminism and the Western in Film and Television

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Wildermuth, Mark E. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.