Women in the western /:

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Femininecharts these sig...

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Weitere Verfasser: Matheson, Sue (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
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Zusammenfassung:In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Femininecharts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9781474444163
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