Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Gender, History and the West -- Hyper-linearity: Practical Understandings of the Link between Past and Present -- Chapter 2: 'He's not a man! He's a sack of money!':...
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Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Gender, History and the West -- Hyper-linearity: Practical Understandings of the Link between Past and Present -- Chapter 2: 'He's not a man! He's a sack of money!': Corporatism and the Male Breadwinner -- 'Money splits better two ways instead of three': Economic Disenfranchisement in The Naked Spur -- Contextualizing the Emasculated Western Protagonist in the Capitalist Arena -- 'Won't ya do me?': White Men Competing with Women and Minorities -- Conclusion Chapter 3: 'Back home they think I'm very strange. I'm a feminist': Re-Evaluating the Feminine Other -- Women's Roles in Real West and Reel West -- The Women of High Noon -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: 'You're the party done all the suffering': Representing Stereotypes of Native Americans in the 'Pro-Indian' Western Cycle -- Interpreting the Pro-Indian Western Cycle -- 'Say something pretty': Representation, Stereotypes and Race Relations in The Unforgiven and Soldier Blue -- 'Since Cain slew his brother': Situating Stereotypes within Historical Contexts -- Conclusion Chapter 5: 'A pistol don't make a man': Technology and Masculine Gender Performances -- Gun Technology, Gender Performance and Hyper-Linearity -- Gun Technology, Masculine Gender Performance and The Wild Bunch -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: 'Who are those guys?': Understanding American Intervention in the 'South of the Border' Western -- 'A Little Short of Brotherly Love' on the Home Front -- American Men Dying Bloody in Bolivia -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: 'As unmarked as their place in history': Black Westerns, an Alternative History of Masculinities? 'They're gonna give us nothin'': Constructing Black History in Buck and the Preacher -- 'I've got my reputation to think about': Production Context, Stereotype and a Resurgent Masculinity in Buck and the Preacher -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Books -- Essays -- Index
