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

261 Pages·2013·1.488 MB·English

by  Sue Matheson

Love in Western Film and Television
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Love in Western Film and Television
Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails
Editedby
Sue Matheson
LOVEINWESTERNFILMANDTELEVISION
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
SueMatheson
1 Virgins,Widows,andWhores:TheBridePoolofthe
JohnWayneWesterns 7
HelenM.Lewis
2 OnlyaWomanAfterAll?GenderDynamicsinthe
WesternsofBarbaraStanwyck 19
A.P.Nelson
3 Violence,Vixens,andVirgins:Noir-likeWomeninthe
Stewart/MannWesterns 35
DebraB.Cutshaw
4 FromWhoretoHero:ReassessingJillinOnce
UponaTimeintheWest 53
AndreaGazzaniga
5 “Wild”Women:InterracialRomanceontheWestern
Frontier 71
CynthiaJ.Miller
6 PaladinPlaystheField:1950sTelevision,Masculinity,
andtheNewEpisodicSexualizationofthePrivate
Sphere 91
ErinLeeMock
7 ReverseTransvestismandtheClassicHero:TheBallad
ofLittleJoandtheArchetypalWestern(Fe)male 111
VincentPiturro
viii Contents
8 TheMelancholyCoupleinWinchester’73 125
PeterFalconer
9 Outlaws,Buddies,andLovers:TheSexualPoliticsof
CalamityJaneandButchCassidyandtheSundanceKid 141
FrancesPheasant-Kelly
10 HorsePower:EquineAlliancesintheWestern 161
StellaM.Hockenhull
11 AFrenchUnsettlementoftheFrontier:Loveandthe
ThreatenedAmericanDreaminHeaven’sGate (1980) 179
LaraCox
12 MidnightCowboy:ALoveStory 197
ZhenyaKiperman
13 GermanSaddlePalsandtheAbsenceofLoveinthe
KarlMayWesterns 209
RobertSpindler
14 “Whenyousidewithaman,youstaywith
him!”—philia andtheMilitaryMindinSam
Peckinpah’sTheWildBunch (1969) 225
SueMatheson
NotesonContributors 239
Index 243
Figures
2.1 FromTheWashingtonPostandTimesHerald,
May13,1956 22
2.2 Kit(BarbaraStanwyck)diesinthearmsofJeff
Younger(BarrySullivan)inTheMaverickQueen
(1956) 24
3.1 LolaManners(ShellyWinters)andLinMcAdam
(JamesStewart)embraceinWinchester’73 (1950) 40
4.1 Jill(ClaudiaCardinale)stopsinthedoorwaybefore
steppingoutofthehouseandgivingmenwaterin
OnceUponaTimeintheWest (1968) 55
5.1 PauletteGoddard’sfeistyLouvetteinNorthWest
MountedPolice (1940)attemptstosellherfursto
DustyRivers(GaryCooper) 76
5.2 Louvette(PauletteGoddard)iscontrastedwithApril
Logan,MadeleineCarroll’sCelluloidPrincessin
NorthWestMountedPolice (1940) 78
6.1 Paladin(RichardBoone)comfortsEllaWest(Norma
Creane)inEpisode1,Season1ofHaveGun,Will
Travel (1957) 96
7.1 JoeMonaghan(SuzyAmis)istoldthatheis“quite
peculiar”inTheBalladofLittleJo(1993) 116
8.1 Lola(ShellyWinters)tellsLin(JamesStewart)that
sheunderstandswhatthelastbulletisforin
Winchester’73 (1950) 133
9.1 CalamityJane(DorisDay)disagreeswithBillHickok
(HowardKeel)inCalamityJane (1953) 146
9.2 Sundance(RobertRedford)andButchCassidy(Paul
Newman)discusswhetherornottojumpoffacliff
andintoariverinButchCassidyandtheSundance
Kid (1969) 153
10.1 Sonny(RobertRedford)andRisingStarrideoffinto
thesunsetattheconclusionofTheElectricHorseman
(1979) 176